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 Medeiros at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival | |
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| Born | 18 January 1956 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress. [1]
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Elli Medeiros | |
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| Medeiros at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 18 January 1956 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress. [1]
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]
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.
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.
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