Lio
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 17, 1962 (age 64)
- Birthplace
- Mangualde, Portugal
Biography
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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Filmography
The Law of Karma
Movie · as Baletti
Taratata fête le Zénith 1984
Movie · as Self : Guest
Lio
Movie · as Self
Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2025
Movie · as Self
From Rock Star to Killer
TV · as Self · 3 eps
"Couch" by Lena Situations
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
La Génération des Enfants du rock
Movie · as Self (voice)
Années 80, les brunes comptent plus pour des prunes !
Movie · as Self (voice / archive footage)
Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2024
Movie · as Self
Les Scandaleuses
Movie · as Self
Belgomania, toute la Belgique qu'on aime !
Movie · as Self
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Et Dieu créa Barbie
Movie · as Self
Une journée avec Jacques Brel
Movie · as Self
Drag Race Belgium
TV · as Self - Guest Judge, Self - Judge · 1 ep
Elle m'a sauvée
Movie · as Maître Nathalie Tomasin
The Demons of Dorothy
Movie · as Motherator
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV · as Self · 1 ep
La Boîte à secrets
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Traveller
TV · as Anna Farou · 1 ep
Mask Singer
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Les années 80, le grand concert
Movie · as Self
Stars 80 - Triomphe
Movie · as Self
Stars 80, la suite
Movie · as Lio
Amanda
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Quotidien
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Stars 80, le concert au Stade de France
Movie · as Self
Belgian Disaster
Movie · as Marie-Claire
Henri
Movie · as Rita
Tiger Lily, 4 femmes dans la vie
TV · as Muriel Lange · 6 eps
RFM Party 80 La tournée Best of à Bercy
Movie · as Self
Stars 80
Movie · as Lio
The Music According to Tom Jobim
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Kids of Töday
Movie · as Self
Images of Women of the Social Corset
Movie · as Self
À dix minutes de nulle part
Movie · as Marie
Le Temps du silence
Movie · as La chanteuse
The Voice Belgique
TV · as Self - Coach · 17 eps
Danse avec les stars
TV · as Self - Candidate · 1 ep
Love Like Poison
Movie · as Jeanne Falguères
The Evening Dress
Movie · as Hélène Solenska
Bulles de Vian
Movie · as Self
C à vous
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Le Prince de ce monde
Movie · as Florence
Rien dans les poches
Movie · as Nicole Manikowski
The Last Mistress
Movie · as La chanteuse
A Parting Shot
Movie · as Eugenia
Lost Signs
TV · as Michèle Costa · 12 eps
Invisible
Movie · as Carole Stevens
Les Vacances de Noël
Movie · as Lio
C'est la vie, camarade!
Movie · as Charlène
Mariages!
Movie · as Micky
Bonjour la France
Movie · as Self
Colette, une femme libre
TV · as Marguerite Moreno · 2 eps
La Méthode Cauet
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Carnage
Movie · as Betty
Star Academy
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Vivement dimanche
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Christmas at Bunny's
Movie · as La fiancée de Bugs Bunny
Drôle de Noël pour Jérémy
Movie · as Self
God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
Movie · as Gabrielle
La niña de tus sueños
Movie · as Françoise
Nobody Loves Me
Movie · as Marie
The Dead Mother
Movie · as Maite
Love After Love
Movie · as Marianne
Sans un cri
Movie · as Anne
Dirty Like an Angel
Movie · as Barbara
Jealousy
Movie · as Camille
Les nuls, l'émission avec Lio
Movie · as self
Les Nuls, l'émission
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Separate Bedrooms
Movie · as Marie
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Movie · as Yvette, Sam's first wife
Dorothée Show
Movie · as Lio
Nulle part ailleurs
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Collaricocoshow
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Le monde est à vous
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Sacrée soirée
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Golden Eighties
Movie · as Mado
Elsa, Elsa
Movie · as Elsa, number one
La Chance aux chansons
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self, Self - Los Portos · 11 eps
Fan School
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Midi Première
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Numéro un
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Le Grand Échiquier
TV · as Self · 1 ep