La Roux are an English Electropop/Synthpop band made up of singer Eleanor Jackson (born 8 March 1988), and synth player, co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson describes their respective roles as "very much a half and half sharing situation... not like a singer producer outfit", but also recognizing that it often can "look like a solo act". Their music is influenced by 1980s synthpop including Yazoo, Erasure, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Heaven 17, and Blancmange. The band's name originates from Jackson's red hair; she has said: To me, it means red-haired one and it does, vaguely. It s just a male version of red-haired one , which I think is even cooler, because I m well androgynous anyway. So it kind of makes sense.