- Elli Medeiros
Elli Medeiros (b.
18 January 1956 inMontevideo ,Uruguay ) is a singer and actress .Career
The Stinky Toys
Medeiros moved to
Paris ,France , at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the punk band The Stinky Toys.Elli et Jacno
After the group disbanded, Medeiros joined another Stinky Toy member
Jacno to form theelectro-pop duoElli et Jacno . Together they released several albums, one of them the soundtrack to anÉric Rohmer film "Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune".Solo
The singer went solo in 1986. The songs "Toi Mon Toit" and "A Bailar Calypso" were big hits in France and had a more Latin sound than her previous records.
She sang back-up vocals on several of pop star
Etienne Daho 's songs from his 1996 album "Eden". She also helped co-write his song "Me manquer" from the same album.A new album is to be released in September 2006.
Elli Medeiros appears in a number of French films and has worked with, among others,
Olivier Assayas andPhilippe Garrel .Filmography
* 1979: "
Copyright " : Anne
* 1980: "Rectangle - Deux chansons de Jacno" (music video) : Elli
* 1982: "Tokyo no yami (Laissé inachevé à Tokyo)"
* 1982: "L'Enfant secret " : La pute
* 1991: "Petits travaux tranquilles " : Paule
* 1991: "Paris s'éveille "
* 1997: "Tempête dans un verre d'eau "
* 1998: "Il suffirait d'un pont "
* 1998: "Fin août, début septembre "
* 1999: "Derrière la porte "
* 1999: "Pourquoi pas moi? " : Malou
* 1999: "Venus Beauty Institute (Vénus beauté (institut))" : Mlle Evelyne
* 2000: "Mamirolle " : Irène
* 2000: "Paris, mon petit corps est bien las de ce grand monde " : La femme
* 2000: "Jet Set " : Danièle Joubert
* 2002: "Lulu " : Lulu
* 2002: "House Hunting " : La femme
* 2003: "Rosa la nuit "
* 2005: "Panorama " : La mère
* 2007: "Après lui " : Pauline
* 2008: "Leonera " : SofiaDiscography
*1986: "Toi mon Toit"
*1987: "A bailar Calypso"
*1987: "Bom Bom"
*1989: "Vanille"External links
* [http://www.ellimedeiros.com/ Elli Medeiros Official Website]
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