{"id":7328,"date":"2026-09-16T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gray-meerkat-528213.hostingersite.com\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:16:33","slug":"french-rock-icon-catherine-ringer-dies-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/?p=7328","title":{"rendered":"French rock icon Catherine Ringer dies at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was born into tragedy and turned it into art. The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Catherine Ringer carried her father\u2019s scars into song, giving him immortality in \u201cC\u2019\u00e9tait un homme.\u201d When she met guitarist Fred Chichin, their love story exploded into Les Rita Mitsouko, a band that refused every box: rock, funk, chanson, electronics, theatre. Her voice could sneer, laugh, weep, sometimes all in a single line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Losing Fred to cancer in 2007 nearly silenced her, but she clawed her way back, album by album, concert by concert, transforming grief into performance. Every anniversary of his death left her drained, yet she still stepped on stage, still fought for women\u2019s rights and the planet, still insisted life was made of \u201cups and downs.\u201d Now France stands in that down, candles lit, Marcia Ba\u00efla echoing, holding on to the freedom she taught it to sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was born into tragedy and turned it into art. The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Catherine Ringer carried her father\u2019s scars into song, giving him immortality&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7329,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions\/7329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}