Music Biography
Chilo Eribenne is a singer, songwriter, DJ and multimedia artist. She first came to public recognition when she performed with Mark Moore´s S´Express back in 1988 as the silver platform booted funky Diva with a guitar. Even though she had a global number one hit, appeared on television with legends like Donna Summer, drank champagne with A list celebrities, became a Brit Award Winner, she was disillusioned with the shallowness of her role. During this period she toured with Baby Ford, Neneh Cherry, Paul Oakenfold, Tim Simenon of Bomb Da Bass and Colin Favour.
She left in 1990 to develop her singing and song writing abilities and to gain a reputation as a credible artist with real talent and not just a bird with a great image. She went on to record a self written hip hop single with Acid House producer Richard Salt (Baby Ford) called Peter Panhandler which she performed on MTV during a fashion show. The track combined gospel, rap and rock elements. Next, she recorded a duet with soul Diva, Jocelyn Brown. The production leant more on the commercial house side with throwaway pop elements. She made another recording with Charlie Watts jazz drumming colleague, the late John Stevens (creator of influential free jazz style Search and Reflect) whilst she was dealing with EMI Records. It was a straight ahead jazz number with rock overtones called Queen of Thieves, Princess of Charm. Next, she teamed up with one time member of Renegade Soundwave collaborator, Karl Bonnie to write and produce some jazz/electronica.
Chilo has performed her poetry with Headspace in the early 1990s who are presently members of Apollo 440 and Asian Dub Foundation and later put together a quartet of musicians to perform her original songs at The Wag, The Portobello Arts Festival, Ronnie Scott´s and Madam Jojo´s. In the mid 90s she performed live with Miko´s drum and bass outfit, The Bowling Green to promote his album at various London venues.
Later, she financed and recorded her own four-track e.p. One of the tracks was picked up by Steve Dub of Dubstar whose remix of Walking Into Love appeared on a Future Music compilation in 1998 along with artists such as Dave Angel.A collaboration in the mid 90s with German Kraut Rock art muso Holger Hiller finally resulted in her song and performance of L´Amour Fou (Mad Love) based on the Andre Breton poem appearing on his self-entitled album in 2000.
During the early part of this century, Chilo made vocal contributions on Andy Bowman´s techno recordings released on Gecko Records and went on to record a single for the Laton Label in Austria produced by Falm (Fon). There she has since developed her themes of alienation, addiction, love, fame and wasted talent via photographic, film, music and performance.