Les Rita Mitsouko was a French pop rock group led by guitarist Fred Chichin and singer Catherine Ringer. [LINK: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727592/bio] [1] The duo first performed as Rita Mitsouko at Gibus Club, Paris in 1980. They went on to become one of the most successful musical acts of the 1980s in France. History Rita Mitsouko began performing in the early 1980s in alternative spaces such as the Pali-Kao, a squatted factory building in Belleville, Paris. The band first achieved major popular success in 1985, with the release of the second single from their first album: "Marcia Baïla" rose to number 2 on the French record charts that summer. Philippe Gautier directed a vibrant and widely viewed music video to accompany the record. "Marcia Baïla" is an homage to Argentinian choreographer and dancer Marcia Moretto, with whom Catherine Ringer had studied and performed in the 1970s. Moretto died of

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