Elli Medeiros
Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956 in Montevideo, 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 the electropop duo Elli et Jacno. Together they released several albums, one of them the soundtrack to an Éric Rohmer film Les nuits de la pleine lune.
Solo
The singer went solo in 1986. The songs, "Toi mon toit" (1986) and "A bailar calypso" (1987), 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.
Elli Medeiros appears in a number of French films and has worked with, among others, Olivier Assayas and Philippe Garrel.
Filmography
- 1978: 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 : Sofia
Discography
- 1977 grey album (Polydor) Stinky Toys
- 1979 yellow album (Vogue) Stinky Toys
- 1980 Tout va sauter (Vogue) Elli & Jacno
- 1981 Inedits 77-81 (Celluloid/EJC/Vogue) Elli & Jacno
- 1982 Boomerang (Celluloid/EJC/ Vogue) Elli & jacno
- 1984 Les Nuits de la pleine lune Bof 'Les nuits de la pleine lune d’Éric Rohmer (EJC/CBS) Elli & Jacno
- 1986 Bom Bom (Barclay)
- 1989 Elli (Barclay)
- 1994 Les Symphonies de poche compilation de Elli & Jacno (Virgin)
- 1998 Best of Elli (Barclay)
- 2006 E M (V2)