Tadros (duo)
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Tadros also known as Les jumeaux Tadros / Duo Tadros are a successful Montreal
Montreal
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-based Canadian
Canada
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 musical duo musical act made up of singer-songwriters, the identical twin brothers Daniel "Dan" Tadros and Eric Tadros (born in Montreal in 1976). Tadros brothers, of mixed Egyptian
Egyptians
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 and Italian origin, are multilingual performers with songs composed in both French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and English
English language
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, and also singing in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

. They are signed to "Due Belier Disques" record label.

Career

Identical twin brothers Daniel and Eric Tadros studied Marketing at Montreal's Concordia University
Concordia University
Concordia University is a comprehensive Canadian public university located in Montreal, Quebec, one of the two universities in the city where English is the primary language of instruction...

. Upon their graduation, they decided to follow a musical career. Their initial release was "Maze" (2000) followed by "Pure Pleasure" (2001) and "PornStar" (2003), all successes in the province of Quebec. Soon followed their debut studio album of the same title Yo Quiero Bailar that includes also an English and French version of the single hit.

In 2007, Tadros released two albums, the all-English Pure Pleasure and the all-French album Vis ta vie. The title song from their francophone album became yet again a hit single for them in Quebec. Four of the songs of the album were written in a specially constructed 4 feet by 4 feet incubator at Place des Arts
Place des Arts
right|frame|View of the Place des Arts esplanade. The Musée d'art contemporain is on the left; behind it is the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, with the Théâtre Maisonneuve on the rightPlace des Arts is a major performing arts centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada....

 where they stayed continuously for a full week in the area popularly known as "bulle" attracting big media attention.

Also famous are their "singing billboards" initiative in which they hired a number of billboard in strategic positions around Montreal, that would broadcast for a whole week 24 hours on 24 music by Tadros thus attracting passersby. They are scheduled to release their new studio album in 2010. They have also signed to be one of the first to embark on Space Adventures trip to outer space where they will perform a song dedicated to universal peace.

Albums

  • 2004: Yo Quiero Bailar

Tracklist:
  1. "Yo quiero bailar" (3:33)
  2. "Loin des yeaux" (3:52)
  3. "Sta Sera" (3:50)
  4. "Être aimé" (3:53)
  5. "PornStar" (3:05)
  6. "Living" (3:17)
  7. "Labyrynthe" (4:07)
  8. "Tant d'amour" (3:15)
  9. "Yo Quiero Bailar" (English) (3:36)
  10. "Yo Quiero Bailar" (Français) (3:36)
  11. "Tou ce qu'on veut pour Noẽl" (3:32) (Bonus track)

  • 2006: Pure Pleasure
  1. Pure Pleasure
  2. Roller Coaster
  3. Maze
  4. Missing
  5. My Girlfriend
  6. Oh Oh Did You Know
  7. More Than Words
  8. Sta Sera
  9. Please Please
  10. Showbiz

  • 2007: Vis ta vie

Tracklist:
  1. "Si on dansait"
  2. "Femme"
  3. "Vis ta vie"
  4. "Le manège"
  5. "Pour toi"
  6. "Ton jeu"
  7. "Tombé"
  8. "Living"
  9. "Je m'ennuie"
  10. "Être aimé"
  11. "Simplement"

EPs

  • 2007: All We Want For Christmas Is Love / Tou ce qu'on veut pour Noẽl

Tracklist:
  1. "All We Want For Christmas Is Love"
  2. "Tout ce qu`on veut pour Noẽl.. C'est de l`amour"
  3. "La Sola Cosa Que Queremos Para Navidads Es Amor"
  4. "All We Want For Christmas Is Love (Instrumental)
  5. "Tout ce qu`on veut pour Noẽl.. C'est de l`amour" (Instrumental)
  6. "La Sola Cosa Que Queremos Para Navidads Es Amor (Instrumental)

  • 2007: I'm Gonna Be Somebody

Tracklist:
  1. I'm Gonna be somebody (2:52)
  2. Let's bring back the 70's (3:35)
  3. N.A.S.A (1:12)
  4. Are You Happy? (3:01)
  5. More Than Words (4:34)

Singles / Videography

  • 2000: "Maze"
  • 2001: "Pure Pleasure"
  • 2003: "PornStar"
  • 2004: "Yo Quiero Bailar"
  • 2005: "Être aimé"
  • 2006: "Living"

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