Sugar Babe aka Elena Skoko

Elena Skoko starts her music career officially in 1996 as lead singer and author in the Italian band CUT, making noise rock'n'roll, three records and playing all around Italy and abroad. She contributed to the records of Julie's Haircut and Timoria. She was part of the indie label Gamma Pop.



In 2001 she started mixing poetry with fashion and performance and did "ophLove" . It was a fashion show where live poetry, music and clothes were used to shape emotions and build a psychomagical act.



In 2002 she collaborated with djs and turntablists for "Proleter-K fashion no-show" - MCing, scratching, good music, video, laser poetry, massive dia-projections, clothes and people, a lot of people puzzling.



From 2003 to 2005 she's doing electronic poetry (spoken words + electronic sounds) with Marta Zapparoli aka Penelopex - called 2B1C ("two blonds one computer") and played in some amazing places like Stubnitz boat in Hamburg.



In 2006 she makes her Myspace page and put on some poems, plain voice and naked emotions. She starts to collaborate with musicians and composers who wanted to put her words into their music. A collaboration with Luca Pagani was born and they did a jam session in Savona in summer 2007. It was the first time they actually met and did a show. It all worked fine and fun.



With Luigi Mastandrea - Mind she gave her voice to passionate words of a mystic Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi. It was part of a sound installation held in her church in Florence in summer 2007.

The year 2008 happened to be a decisive point in her life and music career. She makes a song "Watching Ya" with Lorenzo Montanà for Suoni di Jato, this gets her back to singing and to music business.



In this same year she moves to Bali and meets the bluesman Roberto "Bluebird" Ruggeri with whom she forms a band "Bluebird & Skoko", soon to be published for OmOm Records. So, stay tuned 'cause their new album "Trust Your Mojo, Sista" is going to make music history!