Elli Medeiros

Elli Medeiros is a Chanteuse and Actrice born with Montevideo, Uruguay the January 18th 1956.

Biography

His/her mother Mirtha Medeiros actress and member of the national school of Uruguay, took it along as of her more young age, to attend her courses of theater. Graduate Mirtha, its career quickly became very active and Elli itself was engaged each time for the roles of child in the plays or the telefilms.

At four years, its first role was that of the son of Mrs Butterfly with the Opera of Montevideo. Orson Welles had the same first role at the same age. The father of Elli leaves the hearth whereas it is five years old.

Elli and its mother leave Uruguay for the Argentine and finally, Paris, where Elli is registered with the École of the applied arts which it gives up before obtaining her vat: she indeed has just begun as singer in the Stinky Toys with her companion Jacno - Parisian Group, spearhead of the young French punk scene, the Stinky Toys give some concerts in London festivals with The Clash and The Sex Pistols and make the cover of the Melody Maker. Malcolm McLaren is interested in the group and borrows from Elli the idea of the pins from nurse which retain its Jean torn to make the symbol of the punk one of it. The group which praises anarchy, the festival and excesses, causes a true fascination in the connected mediums and in particular near Alain Pacadis. After two mythical and influential albums, the group separates. Elli continues to sing with Jacno. Both become the techno-pop duet worship Elli and Jacno, which strongly influenced the sound of the Années 1980. Jacno, extremely of its success with Rectangle becomes producer with the mode for Lio, of which the resumption of Stinky Toys, Lonely lovers, sells a million specimens, but also for Etienne Daho, Daniel Darc, Modern Mathématiques, Jacques Higelin, etc After several albums, Rectangle, All will jump, Boomerang, and the nights of the full moon, BOF of film of Eric Rohmer, the duet separates and Elli starts a career solo then. Extracted the album Bom Bom which it carries out with her new companion Ramuntcho Matta individual the You my roof and " With bailar Calypso" will be large the hits of 1986 and 1987 and Elli fire puts at Olympia during one week in first part of the spectacle of Etienne Daho. It becomes the sex symbol of the Eighties and poses as a cover for Playboy. Elli also published Cartoons in the connected “smart” press (" Annie likes the sucettes" , Frontage , etc), where she entrusts her passion for the Végétarisme.

It creates itself its small pockets, but also clothing and accessories with the complicity of her friend designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, for example. Its cartoons, drawings and articles are joined together in the work Images and words published by Futuropolis. Parallel to the music, Elli followed courses of theater and turned of films with Philippe Garrel, Tonie Marshall, Olivier Assayas, Marion Laine, Brigitte Coscas, Stephan Giusti or Christophe Rodriguez. In the Nineties, Elli devotes its time has his/her four children and with his companion Brian de Palma while making some incursions into the music through participations like Jazz in Saint-Germain or more visible with the cinema, as in Jet-set or Why not me at the sides of Johnny Halliday.

Become an icon rock'n'roll impossible to circumvent, it publishes in September 2006, its best album to date, produced with Etienne Daho and encensé by criticisms. As a success never arrives only, it returns to the cinema to the sides of Catherine Deneuve in new film of Gaël Morel, After him .

Discography albums

  • 1977 First album (Polydor) Stinky Toys
  • 1979 Second album (Vogue) Stinky Toys
  • 1980 All will jump (Vogue) Elli & Jacno
  • 1981 Inedits 77-81 (Celluloid/EJC/Vogue) Elli & Jacno
  • 1982 Boomerang (Celluloid/EJC/Vogue) Elli & jacno
  • 1984 the nights of the full moon BOF 'the nights of full moon of Eric Rohmer (EJC/CBS) Elli & Jacno
  • 1986 Bom Bom (Barclay)
  • 1989 Elli (Barclay)
  • 1994 Symphonies of pocket compilation of Elli & Jacno (Virgin)
  • 1998 Best off Elli (Barclay)
  • 2006 E M (V2)

Discography individual

  • 1977 Boozy creed (Polydor) with Stinky Toys
  • 1978 Plastic faces (promotion) (Polydor) with Stinky Toys
  • 1980 Birthday party (promotion) (Vogue) with Stinky Toys
  • 1980 Hand in the hand (Vogue) with Elli & Jacno
  • 1981 Oh the (Celluloid EJC/Sails) with Elli & Jacno
  • 1983 the telephone (EJC/CBS) with Elli & Jacno
  • 1984 nights of the full moon (promotion) (EJC/CBS) with Elli & Jacno
  • 1984 Chica chica bongo (EJC/CBS) with Elli & Jacno
  • 1986 You my roof (Barclay)
  • 1987 has bailar Calypso (Barclay)
  • 1989 Vanille (promotion) (Barclay)
  • 1989 The wheel off time (Barclay)
  • 2006 Soulève me (V2)

Participations
  • 1978 Plastic faces live in the rock'n'roll from here in Olympia with Stinky Toys (Emi)
  • 1979 Anne sought the love in Rectangle of Jacno (Dorian/Celluloid)
  • 1986 Pop egery O. in Pop Satori of Etienne Daho (Virgin)
  • 1996 I to miss

in Eden of Etienne Daho (Virgin)
  • 1997 Sophisticated lady in Jazz has Saint Germain (Virgin) (with Deborah Harry, Brigitte Fontaine, Catherine Ringer etc…)
  • 1998 Beauty and pride in In the Skin De Daho of Etienne Daho (Virgin)

    • Catalog of films

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