Catherine Ribeiro, Boundary-Breaking French Singer, Dies at 82

Catherine Ribeiro died in a single day at a retirement residence within the French metropolis of Martigues, Le Monde experiences, citing an announcement from her representatives to Agence France-Presse. The Lyon-born singer was 82 years previous.

Ribeiro was born in 1941 to Portuguese dad and mom. Earlier than her profession in music, she appeared in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 movie Les Carabiniers. All through the Sixties, she recorded plenty of singles and have become a yé-yé star, finally releasing Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis, the debut album from her new group with multi-instrumentalist Patrice Moullet, in 1969.

The 2Bis modified their title to Alpes and, with Ribeiro, recorded a slate of psychedelic prog rock albums throughout the Seventies, eschewing Ribeiro’s yé-yé roots in favor of experimental, uncompromisingly political songs on points together with the Vietnam Battle and Palestine. Ribeiro + Alpes launched their last studio album, La Déboussole, in 1980. Ribeiro adopted with solo data within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties.

Kim Gordon has been considered one of Catherine Ribeiro’s most vocal followers, praising the singer in a number of interviews. “Catherine Ribeiro’s voice is so superb and the music sounds so—I hate to make use of the phrase natural, however I simply form of relate it to the music,” Gordon instructed The Quietus in 2018. “She is unquestionably an affect on me.”

Weyes Blood has additionally expressed her admiration for Catherine Ribeiro (“extraordinarily highly effective, wild, improvisatory voice”), and Circuit des Yeux has coated “Sœur de Race.” Mexican Summer season imprint Anthology Recordings reissued three of Ribeiro + Alpes’ albums in September 2018: N°2, Âme Debout, and Paix.