Some voices you recognise in a split second. Catherine Ringer’s was one of them. A voice that could laugh, rasp, scream, sing of love, desire or madness. A voice that never wanted to be put in a box.
The announcement of her death has triggered a wave of emotional reactions. Among them, French President Emmanuel Macron, who paid tribute to a personality he called "unclassifiable, irreverent, profoundly French".