Birth name Eliot Paulina Sumner Parents Sting, Trudie Styler Years active 2005–present Movies Stardust | Name Eliot Sumner Music group I Blame Coco Role Musician | |
Also known as Coco, I Blame Coco, Coco Sumner Genres New wave, indie rock, synthpop Occupation(s) Musician, singer-songwriter Instruments Vocals, guitar, drums, bass guitar, piano, synth Siblings Mickey Sumner, Jake Sumner, Joe Sumner, Fuchsia Sumner, Giacomo Sumner Similar People Profiles | ||
Interview with eliot sumner
Eliot Paulina Sumner (born 30 July 1990 in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy), also known as Coco, is an English musician. Her debut album, The Constant (2010), was released under the band name I Blame Coco, while her solo work has been released under her birth name, Eliot. She is the daughter of musician Sting and actress Trudie Styler.
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- Interview with eliot sumner
- Eliot sumner after dark balconytv
- I Blame Coco
- Solo career
- Personal life
- Awards and honors
- Other Remixes
- References
Eliot sumner after dark balconytv
I Blame Coco
Sumner began writing songs at the age of 15. When she was 17, she signed a multi-record deal with Island Records.
Sumner spent six months writing and recording her debut album, The Constant (2010), in Sweden with producer Klas Åhlund, keyboardist Emlyn Maillard, and multi-instrumentalist and producer Al Shux, under the band name I Blame Coco. The album included elements of pop music, electronic music, ska, and punk. The first single, "Caesar", featured Swedish pop singer Robyn. The next single, "Self Machine", was released in July 2010.
According to Christian Wåhlberg, Sumner's manager, Åhlund had been keen to work with her because he saw the "punk rocker" in her. Wåhlberg said that the electropop sound of the album was influenced by Darcus Beese, president of Island Records, and that if Sumner had signed to a different record label, the music would have been different. '
Solo career
In 2014, Sumner said that her music would be released under the birth name, Eliot. Later that year, she released the EP Information, and in 2016 the full album Information appeared.
Sumner's contributions to other musicians' albums include vocals for the song "End of the Road" by Sway and the single "Splash" by Sub Focus. She did a cover version of the Radiohead song "Creep" with Clint Mansell for the soundtrack to the movie Filth (2013).
She appeared briefly in the films Me Without You (2001) and Stardust (2007) and was credited as Coco Sumner.
Personal life
Sumner is the daughter of musician Sting and actress Trudie Styler. She was born in Pisa, Italy, grew up in Wiltshire, England, and was educated at Bryanston School and then the Fine Arts College in London.
She grew up in Lake House, the family estate near Stonehenge. She has two brothers, Jake and Giacomo, a sister, Mickey, an older half-brother, Joe, and a half-sister, Kate. Her family gave her the nickname "Coco". Drawn to the outdoors, she spent much of her time alone in the woods. She was given her first guitar when she was four or five, wrote her first song at thirteen, and got a record deal at seventeen. After recording and touring with I Blame Coco, she lived alone in a cottage in the Lake District of England, where she became interested in house music. For three years, she worked as a DJ in European dance clubs while keeping her identity hidden. Her sense of smell was lost after a brain injury in 2009.
In December 2015, when Sumner was asked if she identified with a particular gender, she replied that she didn't believe in gender labels. She said she had been dating Lucie Von Alten, an Austrian model, for two years.