Singer, songwriter, actor and writer, Georges August Charles Guibourg dit
Georgius was born in Mantes-la-Ville on June 3, 1891. The son of a schoolteacher
and journalist, he grew up in Paris and took piano lessons, before working in a
fur workshop. His passion for singing, popular arias and operettas, won him
over, and in 1908, Georgius was hired at the Concert du XXe Siècle, a
café-concert in Ménilmontant, before touring the capital's cabarets. While he
honed his comic repertoire, his impresario Dalos found him engagements at the
Alhambra, the Univers, the Concert des Bateaux, t...