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Lio is a Belgian singer and actress, born as Wanda Ribeiro de Vasconcelos in 1962 in Mangualde, Portugal. In 1968, she and her family moved to Belgium.

Biography

She was a pop icon in France during the 1980s. Her first selftitled album was produced by Marc Moulin and Dan Lacksman from the electro-trio Telex. In 1982 the American music duo Sparks worked with her on the album Suite Sixteen, on which some of her previous songs were translated into English. Suite Sixtine. Suite Sixtine was compiled and art directed by Ralph Alfonso for Attic Records Canada, where it originally appeared. She worked with Etienne Daho and Jacno. She is known mainly for her song, "Banana Split" redone on the Suite Sixteen album as "Marie Antoinette." She first appeared on the screen in 1983 in Chantal Akerman's film The Eighties. Ackerman recast her in the 1986 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. Lio is a current judge of French idol show Nouvelle Star.

Discography

Singles

• 1980: "Le banana split"
• 1980: "Amoureux solitaires"
• 1980: "Sage comme une image"
• 1981: "Amicalement votre"
• 1982: "Mona Lisa"
• 1983: "Zip a doo wah"
• 1983: "La reine des pommes"
• 1986: "Les brunes comptent pas pour des prunes"
• 1986: "Fallait pas commencer"
• 1986: "Je casse tout ce que je touche"
• 1986: "Chauffeur"
• 1988: "Seules les filles pleurent"
• 1988: "Tu es formidable"
• 1991: "Girl from Ipanema"
• 1991: "L'autre joue"
• 1996: "Tristeza"
• 2000: "Je suis comme je suis"

Albums

• 1980: Lio
• 1982: Suite sixtine
• 1983: Amour toujours
• 1986: Pop model
• 1988: Can can
• 1991: Des fleurs pour un caméléon
• 1996: Wandatta
• 2000: Chante Prévert
• 2003: Cœur de rubis
• 2005: Les Pop Songs (Best Of 1)
• 2005: Les Ballades (Best Of 2)
• 2005: Pop Box - 25 Years In Pop (7 remastered CDs with bonus tracks and 1 DVD of clips)
• 2006: Dites Au Prince Charmant

Filmography

• Elsa Elsa (1985, directed by Didier Haudepin)
• Golden Eighties (1986, directed by Chantal Akerman)
• Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté (1988, directed by Claude Lelouch)
• Chambre à part (1989, directed by Jacky Cukier)
• Sale comme un ange (1991, directed by Catherine Breillat)
• Jalousie (1991, directed by Kathleen Fonmarty)
• Rock-A-Doodle (1991, voice of Goldie, French version)
• Love After Love (1992, directed by Diane Kurys)
• Sans un cri (1992, directed by Jeanne Labrune)
• Personne ne m'aime (1994, directed by Marion Vernoux)
• Dieu, l'amant de ma mère et le fils du charcutier (1995)
• Carnages (2002, directed by Delphine Gleize)
• C'est la vie, camarade ! (directed by Bernard Uzan)
• Colette, une femme libre (2004, directed by Nadine Trintignant, Television)
• Mariages ! (2004, directed by Valérie Guignabodet)
• Les Invisibles (2005, directed by Thierry Jousse)
• The Last Mistress (2007, directed by Catherine Breillat)
• Le Prince de ce monde (2008)

Théâtre

• Le Bébé

External links

• Official website (in French) (offline)
• Lio at the Internet Movie Database