Born in 1944, Rey is the daughter of an architect and a psychoanalyst. She was trained as a pianist and musicologist.
In 1968, she became a freelancer for the newspaper Le Monde. In 1978, she was part of the founding team of the monthly magazine Le Monde de la musique. There, she worked in collaboration with Louis Dandrel, Francis Mayor, Bernard Lauzanne...
She wrote numerous articles on music and a biography of Erik Satie for Éditions du Seuil.[1]
For le Monde de la musique, she proposed to open the editions of the monthly magazine specialized in classic music to jazz, rock, song, dance, musical theatre.
In the 1980s, she worked in the culture department of the newspaper Le Monde, and created the supplement Arts et spectacles, open to rock, contemporary dance, world musics. She left the newspaper in 1995 to teach cultural mediation at the university.
In 2006, she published Mozart et ses masques[2] in the Omnibus series.[3]
Rey died in Paris 31 January 2012[4] and is buried in the Île d'Yeu.
