Mikado was a French pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 group from 1982 to 1991.

History

After leaving the pop group Lala et les Émotions, singer Pascale Borel

Pascale Borel

Pascale Borel is a French pop singer. She was a member of the French pop group Mikado in the 1980s.-External links:* *...

 met Grégori Czerkinsky. In 1982 together they created the pop duo Mikado, named after the Japanese game. Borel wrote the lyrics and sang and Czerkinsky composed and arranged the music. The group acquired a fan base quickly in Japan

Japan

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 and went on several tours in that country in the 1980s. Their first success in France was the single Naufrage en hiver in 1986. Their retro-kitsch

Kitsch

Kitsch is a form of art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an extant style of art or a worthless imitation of art of recognized value. The concept is associated with the deliberate use of elements that may be thought of as cultural icons while making cheap mass-produced objects that...

 album and single covers were designed by French artists Pierre et Gilles

Pierre et Gilles

Pierre et Gilles, Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, are French artists and romantic partners. They produce highly stylized photographs, building their own sets and costumes as well as retouching the photographs...

. Borel and Czerkinsky split up in 1991 to pursue solo careers.