Elli et Jacno was a French 1980s
electropop
Electropop is a hybrid music genre combining elements of electronic and pop genres. Writer Hollin Jones has described it as a variant of synth-pop with heavy emphasis on its electronic sound. The genre was developed in the 1980s and saw a re ...
group. They were quite successful in France and to some extent in
Britain
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* The United Kingdom, a sovereign state in Europe comprising the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands
* Great Britain, the largest island in the United King ...
, having been featured once on the front page of
Melody Maker
''Melody Maker'' was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest. It was founded in 1926, largely as a magazine for dance band musicians, by Leicester-born ...
magazine.
History
Denis Quilliard (alias
Jacno
Jacno (3 July 1957 in Paris – 6 November 2009) was a French musician.
Born as Denis Quilliard, he was a founding member of the first French punk band The Stinky Toys. In the early 1980s, after the group disbanded, he teamed up with former S ...
) and
Elli Medeiros
Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress.
Career
Stinky Toys
Originally from Uruguay, Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the ...
decided to start a music duo after leaving the
punk
Punk or punks may refer to:
Genres, subculture, and related aspects
* Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres
* Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture s ...
band
The Stinky Toys. Jacno composed and performed the music and Elli wrote and sang the lyrics. They released three albums together before splitting up and beginning solo careers. A compilation ''Symphonies de Poche'' was released by Virgin ten years later.
Discography
* Tout va sauter (1980, Vogue)
* Inédits 77-81 (1981, compilation, Vogue)
* Boomerang (1982, Celluloid)
* Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune (1984, CBS)
* Symphonies de Poche (1994, compilation, Virgin)
References
French musical groups
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