Lio
Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos (born 17 June 1962), known professionally as Lio, is a Portuguese-Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s. In 2024 she began serving as a judge on Drag Race Belgium. Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos was born on 17 June 1962 in Mangualde, Portugal. When her father was called up to fight in the Portuguese Army, the family moved to Mozambique. Her parents divorced and, in 1968, Vanda 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. Her first two singles were "Le Banana Split", which sold over 1 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 France, and Moulin and Lacksman also produced her self-titled first album. In 1982 the American music duo Ron and Russell Mael, of Sparks, worked with her on the album Suite sixtine, on which some of her previous songs were translated into English. Suite sixtine was compiled and art directed by Ralph Alfonso for Attic Records Canada, where it was originally released. Her second album, Amour toujours, was produced by Alain Chamfort and released in 1983. The same year, she first appeared on the screen in Chantal Akerman's film Golden Eighties, a lighthearted, humorous French pop musical about the people who work together in a Parisian shopping center. Lio plays a carefree hairdresser in the movie.. In 1984, she was featured in a TV special with France Gall called “Formule 1”, where she sang "Be My Baby" with Gall. In 1985, she met record company executive and producer Michel Esteban, of ZE Records. She continued to have hit singles in Europe, including "Les brunes comptent pas pour des prunes", and travelled to Los Angeles with Esteban to record her next album Pop model. Several of the tracks were co-produced by John Cale, formerly of the Velvet Underground, and the album produced the hits "Fallait pas commencer", "Je casse tout ce que je touche", and "Chauffeur". In 1988, after she had given birth to a daughter with Esteban, she resumed her acting career, starring in Claude Lelouch's film Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté. The Lio-Esteban partnership produced another album, Can can, recorded in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro. She also designed a fashion collection for the European department store chain Prisunic. ... Source: Article "Lio (singer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Quotidien
2016 · Self - Guest
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
Sacrée soirée
1987 · Self
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Self
Midi Première
1975 · Self
Fan School
1977 · Self
C à vous
2009 · Self - Guest
Le monde est à vous
1987 · Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Numéro un
1975 · Self
La Méthode Cauet
2003 · Self - Guest
La Chance aux chansons
1984 · Self
Nulle part ailleurs
1987 · Self
Les Nuls, l'émission
1990 · Self - Guest
"Couch" by Lena Situations
2025 · Self - Guest
Star Academy
2001 · Self
Danse avec les stars
2011 · Self - Candidate
Mask Singer
2019 · Self
From Rock Star to Killer
2025 · Self
Drag Race Belgium
2023 · Self - Guest Judge
The Traveller
2019 · Anna Farou
Lost Signs
2007 · Michèle Costa
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022 · Self
Lio
2025 · Self
The Voice Belgique
2011 · Self - Coach
La Boîte à secrets
2019 · Self
Tiger Lily, 4 femmes dans la vie
2013 · Muriel Lange
The Last Mistress
2007 · La chanteuse
Collaricocoshow
1987 · Self
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988 · Yvette, Sam's first wi...
Elsa, Elsa
1985 · Elsa, number one
Golden Eighties
1986 · Mado
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Mariages!
2004 · Micky
Une journée avec Jacques Brel
2023 · Self
Love After Love
1992 · Marianne
Images of Women of the Social Corset
2011 · Self
Dirty Like an Angel
1991 · Barbara
Love Like Poison
2010 · Jeanne Falguères
Eternal Disco - The Greatest Hits
2026 · Self (archive)
Stars 80
2012 · Lio
The Dead Mother
1993 · Maite
Colette, une femme libre
2004 · Marguerite Moreno
Bulles de Vian
2009 · Self
Kids of Töday
2012 · Self
Nobody Loves Me
1994 · Marie
The Demons of Dorothy
2022 · Motherator
The Law of Karma
2026 · Baletti
À dix minutes de nulle part
2011 · Marie
Carnage
2002 · Betty
Les Scandaleuses
2024 · Self
Henri
2013 · Rita
La Génération des Enfants du rock
2024 · Self (voice)
Et Dieu créa Barbie
2023 · Self
The Evening Dress
2009 · Hélène Solenska
Stars 80, la suite
2017 · Lio
Bonjour la France
2004 · Self
Elle m'a sauvée
2022 · Maître Nathalie Tomasi...
Rien dans les poches
2008 · Nicole Manikowski
Invisible
2005 · Carole Stevens
Separate Bedrooms
1989 · Marie
Le Temps du silence
2011 · La chanteuse
Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2025
2025 · Self
Dorothée Show
1987 · Lio
A Parting Shot
2007 · Eugenia
Les nuls, l'émission avec Lio
1991 · self
Drôle de Noël pour Jérémy
1995 · Self
Jealousy
1991 · Camille
Stars 80 - Triomphe
2017 · Self
God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
1995 · Gabrielle
Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2024
2024 · Self
Christmas at Bunny's
1997 · La fiancée de Bugs Bun...
RFM Party 80 La tournée Best of à Bercy
2012 · Self
Le Prince de ce monde
2008 · Florence
The Music According to Tom Jobim
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Stars 80, le concert au Stade de France
2015 · Self
Années 80, les brunes comptent plus pour des prunes !
2024 · Self (voice / archive...
Belgian Disaster
2015 · Marie-Claire
Les années 80, le grand concert
2018 · Self