Biography (La Roux)

La Roux are an English electropop "synth duo" band made up of singer and synth player Elly Jackson and co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid from London, England, United Kingdom.

Their music is largely influenced by 1980s pop music including Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Heaven 17, Yazoo and Prince.

The name "La Roux" is reported to be chosen like this: Jackson found a book of baby names in a bin and in the book was the name "La Roux". 'La Roux' comes from the French for 'red-haired one' ('le roux (masculine) or la rousse (feminine)') referring to Jackson's distinctive hairstyle.

Their first single Quicksand was released by the Kitsuné Music record label in November, 2008. Polydor released La Roux's debut album on 29 June 2009. Polydor released La Roux's second single In For The Kill on 16 March 2009 and prominent dubstep producer Skream has...

Album Records (La Roux)

Bulletproof In For The Kill I'm Not Your Toy Tigerlily Quicksand Colourless Colour Fascination Cover My Eyes As If By Magic Reflections Are Protection Armour Love Growing Pains In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix) Growing Pains (Bonus Track) I'm Not Your Toy (Data Remix) Quicksand - Standard Version In For The Kill (Lifelike Remix) In For The Kill - Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix Bulletproof (Zinc Remix) In For The Kill - Lifelike Remix

La Roux Bulletproof In For The K