
You want me to turn the light off? Are we ready to go?” “Let’s go.” “Let’s go, that’s it!” “You see? That’s all you need to do: Just go.” “We keep doing this with Inge because we know this gives her energy. She says she doesn’t want to go now.” “Just go and talk to her.” “Take a deep breath, Inge.” “We’re all here now.” “You know what you need? Pampering.” “You need pampering.” “You -” “You’re going to be so bored after two hours of quiet.” “And I love the preparation more than anything. Does that work?” “Yes.” “We’re going to just do a different thing with the camera.” “Can you look at yourself in the small mirror?” “We’re both nervous because we’re performing in ‘America’s Got Talent.’” “Well, I’m not nervous at all because of that. And then it lifts your body up.“ “Yeah, so just those three measures.” “Shouting!” “Yes.” “Yes!” “That’s awesome.” “Again?” ”Now you can go, ‘Raaa“Poor sheep.” “Poor sheep, yeah.” “Exactly.” “You can keep going.” “If she got the beginning, we can just do the -” “We’re close. Save your breath.” “Do you know why I want to keep you doing this? Because this way, you keep living. And I told her, ‘This sounds like death metal lyrics.’ And she goes, ’Death ’metal, what is that?’ Inge wrote the lyrics, and we wrote the music for these songs.” “O.K., let’s do those two lines again.“ “Only two lines.

I met Inge almost 15 years ago in school.” “One summer, she started writing these lyrics about blood and death. Transcript Death Metal Grandma A 96-year-old who fled the Holocaust finds a new way to be heard. At the end, she slices the screen and walks through it, singing as she joins the other band members amid a roar of electric guitars, drums and a pounded piano. She sings - in a manner reminiscent of spoken-word poetry - about her grandmother and four young cousins, all of whom were killed in German camps. Ginsberg stands in front of a screen showing filmed images of refugees. In the 2017 music video for the band’s song “I’m Still Here,” Ms. Ginsberg would typically appear in long gowns and pearls and flash the two-fingered hand signal for “rock on” as she sang about the Holocaust, climate change, mental health and other issues.


She was the frontwoman for the band Inge and the TritoneKings, which competed on television in “Switzerland’s Got Talent,” entered the Eurovision Song Contest and made music videos. She wrote songs and poetry, worked as a journalist and refused to fade into the background as she aged, launching herself, improbably, into her heavy metal career. Ginsberg lived in New York City, Switzerland, Israel and Ecuador. The cause was heart failure, said Pedro da Silva, a friend and bandmate. Inge Ginsberg, who fled the Holocaust, helped American spies in Switzerland during World War II, wrote songs in Hollywood and, in a final assertion of her presence on earth, made a foray into heavy metal music as a nonagenarian, died on July 20 in a care home in Zurich.
