Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Jacno
Person · male · France · 4th arrondissement of Paris · born 1957 · died 2009
French singer (1957-2009)
Also known as Жакно
Timeline
2 events◦ Birth 1† Death 1
1950s
2000s
Biography
English biography147 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1308717819
Biography
Jacno (3 July 1957 in Paris – 6 November 2009) was a French musician.
Born as Denis Quilliard, 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. Jacno had also released a number of solo albums since 1979.
He took his professional name from the name of the graphic artist who drew the Gallic helmet logo of French Gauloises cigarettes brand.
In 1999, the Italian DJ Gigi D'Agostino used the track Rectangle for his song La Passion. The song was a hit in Austria and Belgium where it became a number-one single, and was very popular in other European countries.
Jacno died in the night of the 5 and 6 November 2009 from cancer, aged 52.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Jacno head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Identite-Jacno-1977-Sacem.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2476263genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2476263seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacnobiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacno
Why this artist is in the database
- List of French singers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Inconnu · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q2476263 · MusicBrainz: 3fe94cec-f589-41c0-a634-8034c4d192f5
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