Lio Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Lio (born 17 June 1962, in Mangualde, Portugal) is a singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s. Wanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos was born in Portugal. When her father was called up to fight in the Portuguese Army, the family moved to Mozambique. Her parents divorced and, in 1968, Wanda moved with her mother and new stepfather to Brussels, Belgium, where her sister, actress Helena Noguerra, was born. In her teens she was determined to become a singer, and she was encouraged by singer-songwriter Jacques Duvall (né Eric Verwilghem), a... MORE

Lio (born 17 June 1962, in Mangualde, Portugal) is a singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s. Wanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos was born in Portugal. When her father was called up to fight in the Portuguese Army, the family moved to Mozambique. Her parents divorced and, in 1968, Wanda moved with her mother and new stepfather to Brussels, Belgium, where her sister, actress Helena Noguerra, was born. In her teens she was determined to become a singer, and she was encouraged by singer-songwriter Jacques Duvall (né Eric Verwilghem), a family friend. She took her stage name, Lio, from a character in the Barbarella comic books by Jean-Claude Forest. In 1979, together with songwriter Jay Alanski, she and Duvall began working with Marc Moulin and Dan Lacksman from the electro-trio Telex. They produced the first two of her multi-million selling singles, "Le banana split", which sold over 2 million copies, and "Amoureux solitaires", a song originally by punk rock band Stinky Toys. Both songs rose to the top of many pop charts in Europe, and Moulin and Lacksman also produced her self-titled first album. In 1982 the American music duo Ron LESS