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Catherine Ribeiro

At the head of the folk and progressive rock group Alpes, committed singer Catherine Ribeiro embodied the spirit of the post-May 68 era. Born on September 22, 1941 into a family of Portuguese émigrés living in Lyon, she grew up in the suburbs. When she arrived in Paris, she was noticed at a casting and chosen by director Jean-Luc Godard to star in the film Les Carabiniers (1963), which was followed by several other roles. At the same time, she turned to song, recording her first tracks on four EPs released between 1965 and 1967, which earned her a place in Jean-Marie Périer's fam...