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Catherine Ribeiro, a yé-yé singer from the 1970s, known for her very militant lyrics, died during the night of August 22 to 23, 2024. She was 82 years old.
An iconic figure of the 1970s left us at the end of August. The singer Catherine Ribeiro indeed died during the night of Thursday 22 to Friday 23 August 2024, as confirmed by her relatives to Agence France Presse (AFP). Aged 82, she died in the retirement home where she resided, in Martigues, in the south of France. Born in Lyon to Portuguese parents, Catherine Ribeiro first emerged in the 1960s as an actress, with a role in the film The Carabinieri by Jean-Luc Godard, released in 1963.
The disappearance of Catherine Ribeiro at 82 years old
Catherine Ribeiro later turned to music, becoming a Yéyé star of the sixties. She was notably one of the artists featured in Jean-Marie Périer’s famous “photo of the century”, where she appeared in the back row, between Johnny Hallyday and Eddy Mitchell. However, tired of the spotlight and refusing to “become a cover girl”, she opted for a different artistic path. With the composer Patrice Moullet, whom she met on the set of Carabinieriit forms the Alps group.
Catherine Ribeiro: the death of a committed artist
Very quickly, Catherine Ribeiro established herself as a committed artist, a reputation that would follow her throughout her career. Her texts, whether with Alpes or solo, are marked by a strong political commitment. In particular, she opposed President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, defended ecology, spoke out against the war in Vietnam and campaigned for Spanish and Chilean refugees. Described as “Free and libertarian without ever belonging to a clan”, as she declared in 2018 in The Inrockuptiblesshe was nicknamed by the media “the red pasionaria” or even “the high priestess of French song”, often perceived as the heiress of Léo Ferré.
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