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Eva Tanguay's family moved from Quebec's Eastern Townships to the United States when she was a child where she developed an interest in the performing arts, making her first appearance on stage at the age of eight. With her parents assistance, she pursued a show business career, working her way through a variety of amateur contests that eventually landed her a spot with a comedy troupe before making her vaudeville debut in New York city in 1904.

Although she possessed only an average voice, the enthusiasm with which the robust Eva Tanguay performed her raunchy songs soon made her an audience favorite. She went on to have one of the most long-lasting vaudeville careers and eventually commanded one of the highest salaries of any performer of the day. After seeing her perform, English poet and sexual revolutionary Aleister Crowley called Tanguay America's equivalent to Europe's music hall greats, Marie LloydMatilda Alice Victoria Wood ( February 12, 1870 October 7, 1922, was a British music-hall singer. In her teens she adopted the name Marie Lloyd and quickly became one of the most famous of British Music Hall singers and comediennes. Her first major succes of England and Yvette GuilbertYvette Guilbert born January 20, 1867 in Paris, France died February 4, 1944 in Aix-en-Provence, was a music-hall singer and actress. Born into abject poverty, Guilbert began singing as a child but at age sixteen worked as a model at the Printemps departm of France.

Eva Tanguay is remembered for brassy self-confident songs that symbolized the emancipated woman such as "Its All Been Done Before But Not the Way I Do It." In showbiz circles, she was nicknamed the "I Don’t Care Girl," after her most famous song, "I Don’t Care What Happens to Me."

Tanguay sang on a few gramophone recordHeaven and Hell by Black Sabbath is an example, showing the South Korean version of the 33 rpm record from 1980 or 1983. A gramophone record or phonograph record (often simply record is an analogue sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constans for Nordskog RecordsNordskog Records was a small record label based in California in the early 1920s that produced some interesting historic recordings. Nordskog Records was founded by Andrae Nordskog of Santa Monica, California in or about 1921. The label's recording studio. In addition to her singing career, she also starred in two filmFor other uses see film (disambiguation Film — also called movies the cinema the silver screen moving pictures motion pictures photoplays picture shows and flicks — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of the entertainment comediesComedy is the use of humor in the performing arts. It also means a performance that relies heavily on humor. The term originally comes from theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. The humor, once an incid that, despite the limitations of silent filmA silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the motion picture itself, but before the late 1920s, most films were silent. The years before sound came to the mo, used the screen to capture her lusty stage vitality to its fullest. The first, titled Energetic Eva was made in 1916 and the following year she starred opposite Tom Moore in The Wild Girl .

Eva Tanguay retired from show business in the 1930s and died in 1947 in Hollywood where she was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

In 1953 Mitzi Gaynor portrayed Eva Tanguay in a fictionalized version of her life in the Hollywood motion picture, The I Don't Care Girl .