Elli Medeiros

Elli Medeiros
Elli Medeiros
	Medeiros at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival
Background information
Born	18 January 1956 (age 68); Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupation(s)	Singer, actress

Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress.^[1]

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 punk band Stinky Toys.^[2]

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 : The whore
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 : The girl
2000: Jet Set : Danièle Joubert
2002: Lulu : Lulu
2002: House Hunting : The girl
2003: Rosa la nuit
2005: Panorama : The mother
2007: After Him (Après lui) : Pauline
2008: Leonera : Sofia
2018: Amanda : Eve
2024: To Live, To Die, To Live Again (Vivre, mourir, renaître)

Discography

1977: grey album (Polydor) Stinky Toys
1979: yellow album (Vogue) Stinky Toys
1980: Tout va sauter (Vogue) Elli et Jacno
1981: Inedits 77-81 (Celluloid/EJC/Vogue) Elli et Jacno
1982: Boomerang (Celluloid/EJC/ Vogue) Elli et Jacno
1984: Les Nuits de la pleine lune Bof 'Les nuits de la pleine lune d'Éric Rohmer (EJC/CBS) Elli et Jacno
1987: Bom Bom... (Barclay)
1989: Elli (Barclay)
1994" Les Symphonies de poche compilation de Elli et Jacno (Virgin)
1998: Best of Elli (Barclay)
2006: E M (V2)