Lory Bianco
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Bianco in Warnemünde, 2001
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| Born | August 19, 1963 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Lory Bianco (born August 19, 1963) is an Italian-American singer and actress from the United States also working under the name Bonnie Bianco. She may be best known for her role of "Cindy" in the 1983 film–mini TV series Cinderella 80 (also known as Cinderella ´87 or Cindy).
Bianco started her career at the tender age of 10 performing in musicals, fairs, convalescent homes, hospitals, conventions, and beauty pageants. She was managed by Sam Gino and her mother Helen Bianco.
Bianco sang solo and sang duet with her sister Holly and the two of them recorded their first single, "Give me a Minute" in 1975. Later at 16, Bianco received her first professional break with Hal White and Mark Gibbons, who released a single on RCA records, "Teenager in Love". At eighteen Bianco was discovered in a talent search by two producers from Italy, Guido and Maurizio De Angelis. The De Angeles brothers signed her and and became her record label Kangaroo Records/Polygram. They changed her name to Bonnie Bianco.
From 1983 to 1985, Bianco was featured and sang and danced in the prime time Saturday Italian variety show Al Paradise. She became an overnight success in Italy.
In 1983, Bianco landed the female leading role of "Cindy" in the Italian film Cinderella 80, a modernized adaptation of the fairy tale Cinderella. Bianco starred along with french actor Pierre Cosso, known from his movie La Boum 2 with Sophie Marceau. Bianco also recorded the soundtrack for this TV series. The film gave her further success as an actress in Italy.
In 1987, two additional hours of film footage were added to the previously two-hour film and released as a TV series named Cinderella ´87. Cosso and Bianco became overnight sensations in Germany. The duet "Stay" with Pierre Cosso went straight to No. 1 on the Billboard German charts and stayed there for several weeks, while the album was in the number 2 spot for several weeks. The single became a Top 3 hit in Switzerland and Austria too.
Bianco also starred in a second TV mini series, Molly O, released only in Italy.
After several months of rest in Israel, Bianco decided to not to renew her exclusive contract with the De Angelis Brothers' record label and instead signed with Christian De Walden and Steve Singer in a 1/3 business partnership. They signed a new record deal for the European market with Metronome Records. The first single of the album "Miss You So" was an instant Top 10 hit on the German charts. It was produced by Gunther Mende (Alexis, Falco) and Candy DeRouge.
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