Polish singer and entrepreneur.

Born on 24 June 1887, in Poland. Daughter of Napoleon Puacz and of Karolina Massalska. After her studies and consolidating as a singer, she changed her name, Hanna Puacz, for Ganna Walska. She performed in Europe and North America. She married six times, the first time with the Russian Arcadie de Eingorne. With the start of the First World War, she moved to New York, and returned to Paris in 1920, after the death of her second husband, the doctor Joseph Fraenkel. She then married the tapestry manufacturer and millionaire Alexander Smith Cochran, of whom she also divorced. She married for the fourth time with the industrial magnate Harold MacCormick in 1922. She sang together with Jacquen Rouché in 1923, previously she had performed in the Metropolitan Opera House of New York. She took part in operas like "Madama Butterfly" by Puccini in 1926, and "Pelléas et Mélisande" by Claude Debussy and Maurice Maeterlinck in 1933, in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, space of which she was owner. hat same year, she performed in a concert offered in Vichy's Casino, together with the pianist Alfred Cortot. During her stay in Paris, she wrote to Manuel de Falla, for whom she reserved tickets for a concert of the Société International pour la Musique Contemporaine. In 1937, she remarried with the inventor Harry Grindell-Matthews. After its short duration, she returned to the United States, and there she met Theos Bernard, a yoga scholar. In 1941 she bought El Montecito (California), space where she created the Lotusland Gardens, botanic garden considered one of the most beautiful in the world. Later on, she published her autobiography "Always Room of the Top" (1943) and created in 1958 the Foundation Ganna Walska. She passed away on 2 March 1984.