Francine Brunel-Reeves was born on 29 October 1933 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She was married to Hubert Reeves. She died on 4 February 2018 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Daughter of botanist Jules Brunel. assistant of Marie-Victorin and his successor at the Jardin Botanique de Montréal, she became an ethnomusicologist by passion if not officially. She thus helped in the revival of traditional French-Canadian music.