Lio


Lio is a Belgian 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 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, 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 singersongwriter Jacques Duvall , a family friend. She took her stage name, Lio, from a character in the Barbarella comic books by JeanClaude Forest.

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