Multi-award-winning gospel singer
Yvonne Saint Germaine
Last updated 3/13/2017 at 4:59pm

K.B. Schaller
Yvonne St. Germaine's music reflects her beliefs. She travels to many isolated, poverty-stricken Aboriginal communities where, she states, "there is much loneliness and pain." The purpose of her website is "to encourage anyone who is held in the bondage of addiction, abuse, or has lost hope." She sings and shares her hope story throughout Canada and the United States.
"My burden and goal is to reach the people in your community who are lost to addiction or abuse."-Yvonne Saint Germaine
By her own account, prior to July 26, 2006, seven-time Aboriginal Gospel Award winner, Yvonne Saint Germaine, led a life that was "dark, lonely, abused, and suicidal". Her addictions included alcohol, prescriptions pills, and crack cocaine. Her turning point, she states on her website, came when "demons began revealing themselves in my home."
Yvonne knew then that if she were to survive and conquer her addictions, she would need help. She sought it through attendin...
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