Costes

Costes is the stage name of Jean-Louis Costes, a French musician, performer, writer and actor born in Paris in 1954. Since the 1980s he has self-released a large body of tapes and CDs built on synthesizers, looped beats and overmodulated vocals, and he is known for confrontational stage shows that he calls porno-social operas. Costes grew up in Croissy-sur-Seine and studied architecture before turning to music. He performed in Suckdog with Lisa Crystal Carver, to whom he was married.