Cacadou Look

{{Short description|Croatian pop rock band}}{{Infobox musical artist | name = Cacadou Look | image = | caption = | image_size = | alias = | origin = Opatija, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) | genre = Power pop<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rirock.com/rirock-scena/xenia-uzlet-do-vrha-hrvatskoga-rocka/ | title=Xenia - Uzlet do vrha hrvatskoga rocka | last=Rizvanović | first=Nenad | date=August 2, 2008 | work=Rirock.com | language=Croatian | accessdate=2010-01-27}}</ref> | years_active = 1983–1991 | label = Jugoton | website = [https://myspace.com/293423841 Cacadou Look] on Myspace | current_members = | past_members = Jasmina Simić Tatjana Simić Suzana Kožić Tamara Vrančić Sandra Vrančić Giovanna Kirinić Alenka Mendiković }}

'''Cacadou Look''' was a five-piece pop rock band from Opatija, Croatia that was the first Yugoslav all-female band to release a long play record.<ref name="Yu Rock">{{cite book | title=Ilustrovana YU rock enciklopedija 1960–1997 | last=Janjatović | first=Petar | year=1998 | edition=2nd | publisher=Geopoetika | language=Serbian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.last.fm/music/CACADOU+LOOK | title=Cacadou Look | work=Last.fm | accessdate=2008-08-13}}</ref> left|thumb|Cacadou Look's debut ''Tko mari za čari'' (1987) was the first album by an all-female Yugoslav band. Cacadou Look was formed in Opatija in 1983.<ref name="Glas Istre">{{cite web | url=http://www.glasistre.hr/?34f0244fcc3360c524995770c05912a8,TS,2261,3828,18937,24988,236255,, | title=Erotska čednost | last=Rizvanović | first=Nenad | work=Glas Istre | date=April 25, 2007 | language=Croatian | accessdate=2008-08-13}}</ref> They were not the first all-female band in Yugoslavia — at the time, already active were Tožibabe from Ljubljana and Boye from Novi Sad<ref name="Glas Istre"/> — but they were the first to achieve a degree of mainstream popularity, helped by radio play of their two demo tracks, "Sama" and "Kao pjesma" (both 1987),<ref name="Yu Rock"/> and by TV appearances such as those on ''Stereovizija'',<ref name="Glas Istre"/> a popular 1980s music show broadcast by Radio Television Zagreb.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.leksikon-yu-mitologije.net/read.php?id=863 | title=Leksikon YU mitologije - Stereovizija | accessdate=2008-08-13 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610105702/http://www.leksikon-yu-mitologije.net/read.php?id=863# | archive-date=2007-06-10 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

Their first album ''Tko mari za čari'' (Jugoton, 1987) was produced by Husein Hasanefendić and Tomo in der Mühlen,<ref name="Yu Rock"/><ref name="discogs"/> and featured a guest appearance by Vlada Divljan. The album yielded three hit songs: "Sama", "Kao pjesma" and "Tako lako". Apart from "Tako lako", a cover of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy",<ref name="Yu Rock"/><ref name="discogs"/> and "Ne dozvoli", which was written by Divljan,<ref name="Yu Rock"/> all songs on the album were composed by the band.<ref name="discogs">{{cite web | url=http://www.discogs.com/release/702914 | title=Cacadou Look - Tko Mari Za Čari | work=Discogs | accessdate=2008-09-09}}</ref> Despite these accomplishments, the band found working in the men-dominated music scene difficult at times, and occasional malicious remarks motivated them to work even harder.<ref name="Novi list"/>

Their second and equally successful<ref name="Glas Istre"/> album ''Uspavanka za Zoroa'' was released in 1989. Hit tracks from the album were "Baum bam bam", "Budi mi prijatelj", and "Krenite s nama",<ref name="Glas Istre"/> the latter a cover of Bryan Ferry's "Let's Stick Together".<ref name="Yu Rock"/> An English version of "Budi mi prijatelj" — named "Be My Friend" — was also recorded, appearing on ''Yu-Go Pop'' (Jugoton, 1990),<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Cacadou+Look | title=Cacadou Look | work=Discogs | accessdate=2008-09-10}}</ref> a compilation of Yugoslav pop and rock artists performing their songs in English.

Cacadou Look played their last gig in Zagreb on 25 May 1991.<ref name="Glas Istre"/> Members of the band were not willing to start solo careers — seeing them as meaningless without the band teamwork — and left the music scene.<ref name="Novi list">{{cite web | url=http://www.rirock.com/rirock-scena/cacadou-look-intervju/ | title=Cacadou Look - Intervju | work=Novi list | date=December 2003 | language=Croatian | accessdate=2008-09-10}}</ref> __NOTOC__

== Members == * Jasmina Simić (vocals) * Tatjana Simić (drums) * Suzana Kožić (bass) * Tamara Vrančić (keyboards) (1983–1985) * Sandra Vrančić (guitar) (1983–1984) * Giovanna Kirinić (guitar) (from 1985) * Alenka Mendiković (keyboards) (from 1986)

== Discography == * ''{{ill|Tko mari za čari|hr}}'' (Jugoton,1987) * ''{{ill|Uspavanka za Zoroa|hr}}'' (Jugoton,1989)

== References == {{Reflist|2}}

== External links == * [https://myspace.com/293423841 Cacadou Look] on Myspace

Category:All-female bands Category:Croatian rock music groups Category:Musical groups established in 1983 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1991 Category:Yugoslav rock music groups Category:Musical groups from Rijeka Category:Culture in Rijeka Category:1983 establishments in Croatia Category:1991 disestablishments in Croatia