Biography
English singer/songwriter and actor Eliot Sumner first surfaced in 2010 alongside the band I Blame Coco. The outfit fused pop, electronic, and punk textures for its solitary release, the album The Constant, after which Sumner stepped forward alone with the 2016 full-length Information.
Northern Italy was the birthplace on July 30, 1990, where father Sting supplied an elite musical grounding. A quiet Wiltshire village in England became the setting for a childhood deliberately distanced from the spotlight surrounding Sting’s own work. By mid-adolescence, however, Sumner had begun writing original reggae-inflected material that soon appeared online; multiple labels responded, leading to a multi-album contract with Island Records.
During preparations for that debut, the 18-year-old recruited keyboardist Emlyn Maillard and multi-instrumentalist Al Shux, the latter already known for producing Jay-Z’s 2009 chart-topping single “Empire State of Mind.” I Blame Coco’s early-2010 singles showcased a sound drawing equally from pop, ska, and electro-punk, among them a collaboration with Swedish vocalist Robyn. The Constant reached stores later the same year. After devoting the next several seasons to fresh compositions—including a Radiohead cover recorded for the film Filth—Sumner declared that future output would appear under the given name. The Information EP surfaced that August, and selected tracks later anchored the January 2016 album of the same title.
Acting gradually took precedence at the decade’s turn. Earlier film appearances in the 2000s preceded credited roles in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen and the James Bond feature No Time to Die.
Northern Italy was the birthplace on July 30, 1990, where father Sting supplied an elite musical grounding. A quiet Wiltshire village in England became the setting for a childhood deliberately distanced from the spotlight surrounding Sting’s own work. By mid-adolescence, however, Sumner had begun writing original reggae-inflected material that soon appeared online; multiple labels responded, leading to a multi-album contract with Island Records.
During preparations for that debut, the 18-year-old recruited keyboardist Emlyn Maillard and multi-instrumentalist Al Shux, the latter already known for producing Jay-Z’s 2009 chart-topping single “Empire State of Mind.” I Blame Coco’s early-2010 singles showcased a sound drawing equally from pop, ska, and electro-punk, among them a collaboration with Swedish vocalist Robyn. The Constant reached stores later the same year. After devoting the next several seasons to fresh compositions—including a Radiohead cover recorded for the film Filth—Sumner declared that future output would appear under the given name. The Information EP surfaced that August, and selected tracks later anchored the January 2016 album of the same title.
Acting gradually took precedence at the decade’s turn. Earlier film appearances in the 2000s preceded credited roles in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen and the James Bond feature No Time to Die.
Albums
Singles
