Françoise Cactus


Françoise Cactus is a Berlin-based musician and author, best known as co-founder, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist in the band Stereo Total. Cactus has written several novels as well as contributing to German papers such as the Die Tageszeitung. Prior to founding Stereo Total with Brezel Göring in 1993, Cactus played in the West Berlin band die Lolitas, one of only a few Western bands to play officially unsanctioned gigs in East Berlin during the final years of the dictatorship. She is originally from France, having moved to West Berlin in 1985.