Françoise Cactus

Françoise Cactus (5 May 1964 – 17 February 2021), born Françoise van Hove,[1] was a French musician and author, active in Berlin, Germany, best known as co-founder, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist in the band Stereo Total.

[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][excessive citations] Cactus wrote several novels as well as contributing to German papers such as Die Tageszeitung.

[14][15][16][17][18] Prior to founding Stereo Total with Brezel Göring in 1993, Cactus played in the West Berlin band Les Lolitas with co-founder marquis de Coco Nut, one of only a few Western bands to play officially unsanctioned gigs in East Berlin during the final years of the dictatorship.

Françoise Cactus died aged 56 on 17 February 2021 in her Berlin home after having suffered from breast cancer.

An English translation might be: Here she is reclined just as she was inclined, only so that she, so long as she was living, kept moving her behind.