Catherine Ribeiro

Catherine Ribeiro ( born September 22, 1941 in Lyon) is a French chanson and folk rock singer who has been active since the 1960s.

Life and work

Ribeiro Portuguese ancestors. She started as an actress and appeared, for example, 1963 in the comedy Les carabiniers by Jean -Luc Godard (as partisan ). There also starred her future husband, the musician Patrice Moullet (* 1947), with. After a suicide attempt in 1968, she went to the offer of Patrice Moullet one, with 2to and perform and record the fact in 1970 the group founded Alpes. The first breakthrough they had after participating at the festival in Aix en Provence in 1970. Early 1970s they recorded several albums that mixed avant-garde and experimental folk and rock elements and won her a reputation in France. Moullet is not only a composer and guitarist, he used in his band self-designed instruments such as a Percuphone, Cosmo Phone, Stretch Machine. Next played in the Alpes Patrice Lemoine organist and bassist Francis Campello.

It is politically left ( with sympathy for anarchists ) and sat down, inter alia, for political refugees from Spain, against the Pinochet regime in Chile, for Palestinians and similar goals. In the official French media Ribeiro and Alpes were boycotted since 1972. Nevertheless, they performed in large halls such as the Olympia and published a total of nine albums. They went abroad to (Cuba, Zagreb, Barcelona, ​​Algeria, etc.) and for example at the Fête de l' Humanité, the French Communist Party. In addition to her work with Alps and his successors, they also took solo albums with songs on, including his own songs and those of Moullet as well as by Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Leo Ferré.

From the 1980s she moved to the Ardennes, where she lived quite withdrawn later. In her first marriage she was married to Moullet, with whom she has a daughter born in 1971, Ioana. In 1984 she married the Mayor of Sedan, Claude Demoulin, with whom she has a daughter. She has published regularly until the 2000s albums ( in the 1970s until 1985 at Philips, but also for Mercury ).

In 1992, she experienced a comeback (Live Album L' amour aux Nus ). As a result, there have been various attempts of revival performances with Alpes. In 2005 she joined the group of ex -Alpes musician Francis Campello in Valenciennes and 2008 she appeared at the Bataclan in Paris.

Discography (selection)

  • Catherine Ribeiro & 2 bis, Disques Festival 1969 ( with 2 bis )
  • No. 2, Festival 1970 ( also Catherine Ribeiro Alpes, with Alpes)
  • Âme debout, Philips 1971 ( with Alpes)
  • Paix Alpes, Philips 1972 ( with Alpes)
  • Le Rat Debile et l'Homme des Champs, Philips 1974
  • Libertes? , Fontana, 1975 ( with Henri Texier, bass)
  • Le Temps de l' autre, Philips 1977
  • Le Blues de Piaf, Philips 1978 ( solo album, she sings Edith Piaf )
  • Jacque Ries, Philips 1978 ( she sings Jacques Prevert, solo album )
  • Passions, Philips 1979 ( with Alpes)
  • La Déboussole, Philips 1980 ( with Alpes)
  • Soleil dans l' ombre, Philips 1982 ( solo album )
  • Percuphonantes, Ioana Melodies 1986 ( with Moullet )
  • Fenêtre ardente, Mantra 1993 ( solo album )
  • L' amour aux nus, Mantra 1992 ( solo, live )
  • Chansons de legende, Arcade 1997 ( solo )
  • Catherine Ribeiro chante Ribeiro Alpes, Nocturne 2005 ( Live in Valenciennes )
  • Catherine Ribeiro chante Ribeiro Alpes, Nocturne 2007 (Live in Palaiseau )
  • L' Enfance, 1999
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