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.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][excessive citations] She was originally from France, having moved to West Berlin in 1985.[29][30][31][32]
Françoise Cactus died aged 56 on 17 February 2021 in her Berlin home after having suffered from breast cancer.[1] She is buried in Berlin.
The inscription on her gravestone reads:
Hier liegt sie, so wie sie zu liegen pflegte, nur dass sie, solange sie lebte, den Po dazu bewegte.
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.
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