Cacadou Look | |
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| Origin | Opatija, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
| Genres | Power pop [1] |
| Years active | 1983–1991 |
| Labels | Jugoton |
| Past members | Jasmina Simić Tatjana Simić Suzana Kožić Tamara Vrančić Sandra Vrančić Giovanna Kirinić Alenka Mendiković |
| Website | Cacadou Look on Myspace |
Cacadou Look was a five-piece pop rock band from Opatija, Croatia that was the first Yugoslav all-female band to release a long play record. [2] [3]
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Cacadou Look was formed in Opatija in 1983. [4] They were not the first all-female band in Yugoslavia — at the time, already active were Tožibabe from Ljubljana and Boye from Novi Sad [4] — but they were the first to achieve a degree of mainstream popularity, helped by radio play of their two demo tracks, "Sama" and "Kao pjesma" (both 1987), [2] and by TV appearances such as those on Stereovizija, [4] a popular 1980s music show broadcast by Radio Television Zagreb. [5]
Their first album Tko mari za čari (Jugoton, 1987) was produced by Husein Hasanefendić and Tomo in der Mühlen, [2] [6] and featured a guest appearance by Vlada Divljan. The album yielded three hit songs: "Sama", "Kao pjesma" and "Tako lako". Apart from "Tako lako", a cover of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy", [2] [6] and "Ne dozvoli", which was written by Divljan, [2] all songs on the album were composed by the band. [6] Despite these accomplishments, the band found working in the men-dominated music scene difficult at times, and occasional malicious remarks motivated them to work even harder. [7]
Their second and equally successful [4] album Uspavanka za Zoroa was released in 1989. Hit tracks from the album were "Baum bam bam", "Budi mi prijatelj", and "Krenite s nama", [4] the latter a cover of Bryan Ferry's "Let's Stick Together". [2] An English version of "Budi mi prijatelj" — named "Be My Friend" — was also recorded, appearing on Yu-Go Pop (Jugoton, 1990), [8] a compilation of Yugoslav pop and rock artists performing their songs in English.
Cacadou Look played their last gig in Zagreb on 25 May 1991. [4] Members of the band were not willing to start solo careers — seeing them as meaningless without the band teamwork — and left the music scene. [7]