Elli Medeiros is a singer and actress .

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

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band The Stinky Toys

Stinky toys

Stinky Toys were a punk band from Rennes, France which started in 1976 and featured Elli Medeiros , Denis Quilliard, alias Jacno, , Bruno Carone , Albin Dériat , and Hervé Zénouda ....

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Elli et Jacno

After the group disbanded, Medeiros joined another Stinky Toy member Jacno

Jacno

Jacno was a French musician.Born as Denis Quillard, 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 Stinky Toys singer Elli Medeiros to form the pop duo Elli et Jacno...

 to form the electro-pop duo Elli et Jacno

Elli et Jacno

Elli & Jacno was a French 1980s electro-pop group. They were quite successful in France and to some extent in Britain, having been featured once on the front page of Melody Maker magazine.-History:...

. Together they released several albums, one of them the soundtrack to an Éric Rohmer

Éric Rohmer

Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....

 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

Étienne Daho

Étienne Daho is a French singer, songwriter and record producer who has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981.- Career :...

'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

Olivier Assayas

Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:...

 and Philippe Garrel

Philippe Garrel

Philippe Garrel is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer. His movies have won him awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival...

.

Filmography

• 1978: Copyright
  Copyright
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  : 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
  Venus Beauty Institute
  Venus Beauty Institute is a 1999 French movie, telling the story of three employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness.The film is directed by Tonie Marshall...
  
   (Vénus beauté (institut)) : Mlle Evelyne
• 2000: Mamirolle
  Mamirolle
  Mamirolle is a commune in the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France.-Geography:The commune lies southeast of Besançon on the first plateau of the Jura mountains. It is situated at the foot of a wooded hill and is crossed by the railroad from Besançon to Le...
  
  : Irène
• 2000: Paris, mon petit corps est bien las de ce grand monde : La femme
• 2000: Jet Set
  Jet Set
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  : Danièle Joubert
• 2002: Lulu : Lulu
• 2002: House Hunting
  House Hunting
  House Hunting is a psychological horror film starring Marc Singer, Art LaFleur, Paul McGill, Hayley DuMond, Janey Gioiosa, Rebekah Kennedy, and Victoria Vance"House Hunting" a psychological horror thriller written/directed by Eric Hurt...
  
  : La femme
• 2003: Rosa la nuit
• 2005: Panorama : La mère
• 2007: Après lui : Pauline
• 2008: Leonera : Sofia

Discography

• 1986: Toi mon Toit
• 1987: A bailar Calypso
• 1987: Bom Bom
• 1989: Vanille
• 2006: Em

External links

• Elli Medeiros Official Website