"It's Fred [Chichin] who selected the name from all the proposals. I told him: 'But you know, people will think that I am the singer "Rita Mitsouko"'. Fred replied: 'Oh, it doesn't matter.' In the end, we called ourselves 'Les Rita Mitsouko'—though for a time he went by 'Rita' and I was 'Mitsouko,' but that made it even more complicated!"

(Catherine Ringer, cantante, musicista, ballerina, coreografa, attrice pornografica; Suresnes, 18 ottobre 1957 – 14 settembre 2026)