Valentine Petit began at the age of eight years as « petit rat » at the Paris Opera.
At sixteen, she changed direction and took drama classes with Jean-Laurent Cochet for three years.
During a year-end show, she realized that singing and writing have a great importance for her.
She decide to leave Paris for Los Angeles and joined the « Civic Light Opera Musical Theater Workshop » where she takes classes comedy, singing, which initiates the direction of major American musicals.
Back in Paris, important meetings will determine her in her way as author. The first one with Serge Gainsbourg, from the year 1980 to 1991, will be decisive. This link will lead to fully dedicate writing lyrics.
Then her meeting with Michel Tournier, to whom she has a huge admiration.
In 1991 « Etreintes » , album entirely written and performed by Valentine. Hailed by critics, it is adapted to the stage in a ballet «Valentine's love songs » choreography by Roland Petit who is also a video-clip under the lights of Henri Alekan.
Since then, many forms, writing invaded the space of Valentine. She offers us a vision today with « Délits d'Ivresse » and « Les Bons Petits Diables » created at the Théâtre Jean Vilar of Suresnes in December 2005, directed by Roland Petit on music by Richard Galliano with the childrens of «La maîtrise des hauts de seine »
«I write since a long time. For years I was polishing my work, never satisfied from the point to the line. I dreamed of a music that is combine with my words, my work meticulously stored in drawers. Then one day I heard the first notes had been written Richard Galliano on one of my words, my sentences vibrant, alive, wrapped a musical backdrop that I thought never find!
It was such a revelation, it seemed obvious then that the agreements Richard Galliano and the words that I had so long hidden facts to blend, mingle in harmony.
I am very happy to find myself in the Kingdom of magicians ..... where miracles can not be explained, but accomplished. »
* Valentine has just completed tales for children and works currently on a novel.
Valentine Petit died suddenly on January 21, 2025.
In accordance with her wishes, she rests alongside her maternal grandparents at the Père Lachaise cemetery.
As her parents had wished, the "Roland Petit, Zizi Jeanmaire and Valentine Petit Endowment Fund" was created after Valentine's death in order to preserve Roland Petit's legacy and choreographic work.