The Law of Karma
2026 · Movie
as Baletti
Lio
1962-06-17
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Mangualde, Portugal
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.
Filmography
Eternal Disco - The Greatest Hits
2026 · Movie
as Self (archive)
Lio
2025 · Movie
as Self
Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2025
2025 · Movie
as Self
From Rock Star to Killer
2025 · TV Show
as Self
"Couch" by Lena Situations
2025 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
La Génération des Enfants du rock
2024 · Movie
as Self (voice)
Années 80, les brunes comptent plus pour des prunes !
2024 · Movie
as Self (voice / archive footage)
Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2024
2024 · Movie
as Self
Les Scandaleuses
2024 · Movie
as Self
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Et Dieu créa Barbie
2023 · Movie
as Self
Une journée avec Jacques Brel
2023 · Movie
as Self
Drag Race Belgium
2023 · TV Show
as Self - Guest Judge, Self - Judge
Elle m'a sauvée
2022 · Movie
as Maître Nathalie Tomasin
The Demons of Dorothy
2022 · Movie
as Motherator
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022 · TV Show
as Self
La Boîte à secrets
2019 · TV Show
as Self
The Traveller
2019 · TV Show
as Anna Farou
Mask Singer
2019 · TV Show
as Self
Les années 80, le grand concert
2018 · Movie
as Self
Stars 80 - Triomphe
2017 · Movie
as Self
Stars 80, la suite
2017 · Movie
as Lio
No image
Amanda
2016 · TV Show
as Self
Quotidien
2016 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Stars 80, le concert au Stade de France
2015 · Movie
as Self
Belgian Disaster
2015 · Movie
as Marie-Claire
Henri
2013 · Movie
as Rita
Tiger Lily, 4 femmes dans la vie
2013 · TV Show
as Muriel Lange
RFM Party 80 La tournée Best of à Bercy
2012 · Movie
as Self
Stars 80
2012 · Movie
as Lio
The Music According to Tom Jobim
2012 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Kids of Töday
2012 · Movie
as Self
Images of Women of the Social Corset
2011 · Movie
as Self
À dix minutes de nulle part
2011 · Movie
as Marie
Le Temps du silence
2011 · Movie
as La chanteuse
The Voice Belgique
2011 · TV Show
as Self - Coach
Danse avec les stars
2011 · TV Show
as Self - Candidate
Love Like Poison
2010 · Movie
as Jeanne Falguères
The Evening Dress
2009 · Movie
as Hélène Solenska
Bulles de Vian
2009 · Movie
as Self
C à vous
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Le Prince de ce monde
2008 · Movie
as Florence
Rien dans les poches
2008 · Movie
as Nicole Manikowski
The Last Mistress
2007 · Movie
as La chanteuse
A Parting Shot
2007 · Movie
as Eugenia
Lost Signs
2007 · TV Show
as Michèle Costa
Invisible
2005 · Movie
as Carole Stevens
No image
Les Vacances de Noël
2005 · Movie
as Lio
No image
C'est la vie, camarade!
2005 · Movie
as Charlène
Mariages!
2004 · Movie
as Micky
Bonjour la France
2004 · Movie
as Self
Colette, une femme libre
2004 · TV Show
as Marguerite Moreno
La Méthode Cauet
2003 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Carnage
2002 · Movie
as Betty
Star Academy
2001 · TV Show
as Self
Vivement dimanche
1998 · TV Show
as Self
Christmas at Bunny's
1997 · Movie
as La fiancée de Bugs Bunny
Drôle de Noël pour Jérémy
1995 · Movie
as Self
God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
1995 · Movie
as Gabrielle
No image
La niña de tus sueños
1995 · Movie
as Françoise
Nobody Loves Me
1994 · Movie
as Marie
The Dead Mother
1993 · Movie
as Maite
Love After Love
1992 · Movie
as Marianne
No image
Sans un cri
1992 · Movie
as Anne
Dirty Like an Angel
1991 · Movie
as Barbara
Jealousy
1991 · Movie
as Camille
Les nuls, l'émission avec Lio
1991 · Movie
as self
Les Nuls, l'émission
1990 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Separate Bedrooms
1989 · Movie
as Marie
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988 · Movie
as Yvette, Sam's first wife
Dorothée Show
1987 · Movie
as Lio
Nulle part ailleurs
1987 · TV Show
as Self
Collaricocoshow
1987 · TV Show
as Self
Le monde est à vous
1987 · TV Show
as Self
Sacrée soirée
1987 · TV Show
as Self
Golden Eighties
1986 · Movie
as Mado
Elsa, Elsa
1985 · Movie
as Elsa, number one
La Chance aux chansons
1984 · TV Show
as Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · TV Show
as Self, Self - Los Portos
Fan School
1977 · TV Show
as Self
Midi Première
1975 · TV Show
as Self
Numéro un
1975 · TV Show
as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · TV Show
as Self
