Olga Souza
Olga Maria de Souza is a Brazilian and naturalized-Italian singer, model and dancer. She is best known as the frontwoman of the Italian group Corona, produced by Francesco "Checco" Bontempi, a.k.a. "Lee Marrow".
Early life
Souza was born in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Vigário Geral in 1968, into a musical family. Her father was a musician and her mother was a cook. She worked as a clerk at the Caixa Econômica Federal bank for a few years before deciding to travel around the world. She arrived in Italy in 1990. There, in 1993, after supposedly being discovered performing in a club by producer Emanuele Asti, he made her part of Italian music project Corona, where she was hired to lip sync to the vocals of Jenny B and Sandy Chambers.Career
Works with Corona
Corona released their first single, "The Rhythm of the Night" in 1993, which featured the vocals of Italian singer Jenny B. The song remained at No. 1 in the Italian charts for 13 weeks. An album of the same name was released in 1995 in Europe and topped the charts in several countries, gaining a platinum disc after selling more than 1 million copies. The group began its first world tour, and the album was released in the United States. All the other tracks on the album were recorded by Sandy Chambers.Corona's second album Walking On Music, was released in 1998. In 2000, a third album, And Me U, was released. A new sound, new vocals. This time the vocals for this new album were provided by sisters Bernadette "Brandy" Jones and Bambi Jones. Corona participated as a guest in a concert named Angel Live, dedicated to John Paul II in 2006, and in that same year she released her comeback single called "Back In Time", which was the first single that featured Olga de Souza as the original vocalist. Souza returned to America in 2007, where she continued her tour with the band. Corona released its fourth album named Y Generation in 2010, on POP Records.