Moulin Rouge is a Slovenia

Slovenia

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n popular music group consisting of vocalist Alenka Šmidová-Čenová and songwriter, keyboardist, and producer Matjaž Kosi.

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Keyboardist Matjaž Kosi founded Moulin Rouge after leaving Slovenia

Slovenia

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n (then Yugoslav

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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) synthpop

Synthpop

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 band Videosex

Videosex

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 in 1985. Initially, Moulin Rouge consisted of three men, with Katja Lapkovsky joining later as vocalist and primary songwriter. The band took its current membership of Kosi and Alenka Šmidová-Čenová in 1987. They were active primarily from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, and their work combines elements of 1980s Eurodance

Eurodance

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, italo disco

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, Hi-NRG

Hi-NRG

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, and trance

Trance music

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. Moulin Rouge entered Jugovizija

Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest

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, the Yugoslav national pre-selection for the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, and finished in fifth place with the song "Johnny je moj".

Moulin Rouge has enjoyed notable success among fans of electronic dance music

Electronic dance music

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 in Germany

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, Scandinavia

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, USA, Italy

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, and particularly Japan

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. Internationally, their best known singles include "High Energy Boy" (1987) and "Boys Don't Cry" (1988). The latter was covered in a Japanese-language version entitled Namida o Misenaide (Boys Don't Cry) by Japanese female pop duo Wink in 1989. The cover, with lyrics by songwriter Neko Oikawa, reached #1 on the Oricon

Oricon

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 weekly single charts.

In 2000, the band was reconstituted as Moulin Rouge 2010, with Kosi and Karmen Plazar appearing as vocalists.

Discography in Slovenia

Year	Title	Record label
1985	Mi plešemo (mala plošča) ("We Dance (Small Plate)")	ZKP RTVLJ
1987	Moulin Rouge	ZKP RTVLJ
1988	Johnny	ZKP RTVLJ
1989	Najslajši poljubi ("Sweetest Kiss") The first popular music album released on Compact Disc Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...  in Slovenia.	ZKP RTVLJ
1990	Tea For Two	ZKP RTVS
2000	2010 - Album	Hit Factory
2002	The Best Of - 2002	Hit Factory

International discography

Year	Title	Format
1987	High Energy boy	Single
1988	D.J. I Wanna Be Your Record	Single
1988	Boys Don't Cry	Single
1988	Boys Don't Cry (US remix)	Single
1989	Boys Don't Cry (Also released as Out of Control.)	Album
1989	The Megamix	Album
1989	Baby I Miss You	Single
1989	Stranger	Single
1990	Sugar Candy Kiss	Single
1990	Tea For Two	Single
1990	Tea For Two	Album
2002	Just A Start	Single
2003	My Heart Is Beating Boom	Single
2004	Boys Don't Cry	Single
2006	Back Like A Boomerang	Single