As a teenager, would show up for singing assignments (such as video filming) in a mini nightgown, so short it came just below her posterior, and she flashed the cameras as she pranced around. She was barely 17.
Her stage name "Lio" was lifted from one of Barbarella's Sidekicks in
Jean-Claude Forest's eponymous late 60s comic. Allegedly because young
Wanda looked uncannily like said character in the comic.
Has six children: Nubia (born September 1987), Igor (born 1994),
Esméralda (born 1995), Léa and Garance (born 1999), and Diego (born the
21 of May 2003).
Has supported Lionel Jospin's 2002 presidential campaign.
Spent a large part of her childhood in Brussels.
In 1980, she became a very popular singer in Europe with the song
"Banana Split".
The original pop tart.
Had all her children by different fathers.
Is Portuguese-Belgian. (Her family moved from Portugal to Belgium).
In 1987-1988 was selected as one of the most beautiful women in the world (#6 in april 1988) by 'readers' of French magazine LUI (monthly telematic poll).