Deborah Blando

Deborah Salvatrice Blando (Sant'Agata di Militello, March 3, 1969) is an Italian-born Brazilian singer and composer. She has about 6 million copies sold worldwide, with six albums released between 1991 and 2002. She has seven #1 singles and ten Top 10 singles in Brazil, 5 singles in the American Hispanic market, and two of them in the Top 10 which became known in Europe, such as the pop ballad Innocence in 1992.

Biography

Deborah, born in Sant'Agata di Militello, the daughter of an Italian father and a Brazilian mother of Ukrainian descent, who was raised in Brazil. In 1975 she moved to Florianópolis, Brazil. At age 12, she was invited to record her first album under the pseudonym Giovanna, entitled Joy of People, which was recorded completely in Italian and performed on major television shows. Her parents, however, did not allow her to pursue her career as it would disrupt her studies and thus forced her to stop. Later, she resumed her musical career working on Oswaldo Montenegro, including The Minstrels.

International career

A Different Story

In 1989, Deborah Blando was already contracted by the Sony Music Brazil and met Cyndi Lauper and her manager at the time, David Wolff. Deborah soon moved to New York City and signed with Sony Music International to release her new album A Different Story.

The first single, Boy (Why Do You Want to Make Me Blue), joined the American dance chart, and traded in the Coca-Cola (Diet Coke). A Different Story: Special Edition was released in 1993, including a new version for Décadence Avec Élégance by Lobão, and a version of "A Maçã" by Raul Seixas and Paulo Coelho. The Innocence single, reached #13 on major radio stations in Europe.

In 1995, Deborah was invited by the Spanish trip hop band B-Tribe to join the album Suave Suave. She was also invited by Coca-Cola to record the track Seven Seas Of Rhye, the single selling 1 million copies in Brazil.

Unicamente

In 1997, Deborah released the CD Unicamente, which exploded onto the charts. In the same year, the single Cat was used as the title song for the Brazilian soap opera Malhação on the Rede Globo network. This album had the participation of renowned producers such as Patrick Leonard (Madonna, Jeff Back) and David Foster (Michael Jackson, Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston).

In 1998, Deborah released a new CD and once again exploded on the charts with the single Somente O Sol version of the song I'm Not in Love. Her second single and first music video this year wasEagles. Produced by Deborah and Marc Moreau, this album became her most successful in Europe, being certified gold in Portugal.

Career changes

In the year 2000, Deborah faced a major crisis with the recording label Virgin / EMI, generating a great process and a boycott of her songs on international radio.

Concealed by April Music back to basics with the album Salvatrice with only rewrites recent Italian with covers of Rolling Stone and Laura Pausini. At this time, she recorded Junto Com Teu Sonho for the Portuguese release of Where the Dream Takes You, the theme from the Walt Disney movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

In 2002 Universal Music released a greatest hits collection, with a bonus with five previously unreleased tracks.

Ronan Keating

In 2003, she recorded the Brazilian cover for When You Say Nothing at All. The single reached the top 10 in the Latin charts. Her duet of the song in English with Irish singer Ronan Keating was a great success in England.

Decline and removal of media

Deborah Blando suffers from bipolar disorder and this greatly hindered her career. She decided to leave her career aside to move back to London and study Kadampa Buddhism to search for inner peace. With Deborah's illness, her musical projects were left to the background as she sought treatment.

Polares

Even through a personal crisis, Deborah found the strength to polish an electronic music album, combining house, psy-trance, and ballads with the influence of trip hop. The album was recorded during her stint in the United States and Mexico. Ready at the end of 2007, it is perhaps her boldest effort yet. It contains 16 tracks and is totally made in partnership with her friend Alexander Green. The album mixes are on account of total DJs Claudio Ferreira Audiocactos and Sandrinho "Sanschwartz", who brought to the work house and psy-trance elements. Polares moves in two worlds, a dance-based electronic music and other melancholy, with elements such as acoustic piano, strings and guitar. The singer interprets the songs in English and Portuguese, with the songs "Agreement Signed" and "Every Minute" being included on the soundtrack of national and international TV Globo soap opera Seven Sins.

Discography

Albums

Greatest hits albums

Singles

Soundtrack

Tours

• A Different Story (1992)
• M200 Summer Concerts (1994)
• Unicamente Tour (1997)
• Self-titled Album "Deborah Blando" Tour (1998)
• A Luz Que Acende O Olhar (2002)
• Acústico Deborah Blando (2011)
• Remember Tour (2012)

External links

• (Portuguese) Official website
• Deborah Blando at the Internet Movie Database