Luciana Abreu

Infobox musical artist
Name = Luciana Abreu


Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Luciana Abreu Sodré Costa Real
Born = birth date and age|1985|5|25
Origin = Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Genre = Pop, R&B, Pop rock, Fado
Occupation = Singer, Actress
Years_active = 2002 – present

Luciana Abreu Sodré Costa Real (born May 25 1985, at Massarelos, near Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal) is a Portuguese singer and actress.

= Biography=

Early years

She was first noticed at the age of 14, for her participation in the show "Cantigas da Rua", which she won. During 2002 she took a part in the play "O Casamento", by the "Seiva Trupe" theatre company, as both actress and singer. Later, in 2003, she starred the musical play "Cabaret Carioca" by Carlos Leça, inspired by Chico Buarque's music, in which she took the role of "Beatriz".

Idolos

In 2004 Luciana auditioned for the second season of "Idolos" (the Portuguese version of "Pop Idol (British original version)"). She was a member of the first group of semifinalists. She sang a rendition of Christina Aguilera's "The Voice Within" which garnered her a top 10 position

Luciana hadn't made it to final two though.

Song Performances on Portuguese Idol:

*Original Audition: "Fallin" (Alicia Keys), "Run to You" (Whitney Houston) and "Povo Que Lavas no Rio" (Amália Rodrigues)

*Top 30: "The Voice Within" (Christina Aguilera) (semi-final group 1)
*Top 10: "Fallin'" (Alicia Keys)
*Top 8: "Povo Que Lavas No Rio" (Amália Rodrigues), (Portuguese music's week)
*Top 7: "I Will Survive" (Gloria Gaynor) (Disco's week)
*Top 6: "Sympathy for the Devil" (Rolling Stones) (Juri's week)

In the juri's week Luciana was voted off, she had several family problems that week and she couldn't remember the lyrics to the song although her voice was on point.

Post-Idolos

Luciana Abreu has participated in Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in duo 2B (With Rui Drummond), performing "Amar" (words in Portuguese and English), but has failed the final.

Floribella

After representing Portugal in Eurovision Luciana auditioned for a role in Floribella. She ended-up being selected for the lead role in the show, Flor Valente.The shows tells the story of Cinderella in the century XXI, a poor girl who falls in love with a rich guy, but has her (unknown) bad sister stopping her from being happy.It was one of the most succeful tv shows in 2006 so in 2007 debuted the second season although it never reached the same success. Just the OST reached number one in portuguese charts.

Dança Comigo

Dança comigo is the portuguese version of Dancing With The Stars which Luciana was the winner in the third season.

Model Works

Luciana became the cover of magazine "CARAS" of Portugal in January, 2007. She challenged various styles.

Lucy

Luciana Abreu it's the hostess of the show "Lucy", by SIC. This is a show for kids, when Luciana singing and dancing.

Luciana appeared as a cover in a Portuguese version of men's magazine FHM(February 2008 issue). Model and TV host Merche Romero advised Luciana model work. This work of Luciana got into the news.

Personal life

With the success of Floribella, Luciana became very popular in Portugal so several rumors started: the troubles with her father, her possible friends and her catholicism. Luciana lives with mother and younger sister. She has older sister called Liliana; she also has a younger brother named Pedro. She has made appearances on the Portuguese Festival in Newark, New Jersey. she will come again in 2009.

Trivia

*She has been playing Futsal for two years. She is a F.C.Porto supporter.
*Her favourite actress is Angelina Jolie and her favourite book is the Bible
*She has also recently been linked with Manchester United's Portuguese winger, Cristiano Ronaldo but they never had a love affair, it was all a big rumour.

= Discography=

External links

* [http://idolos.sapo.pt/artigo.html?cat=ni6&artigo=517212 Luciana's Portuguese Idol page] pt icon
* [http://lucianabreu.blogs.sapo.pt/ Luciana's Official Fan Club] pt icon
* [http://www.lucianabreu.pt.vc/ Luciana's Fan Page] pt icon
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1816861/ IMDb Luciana Abreu] en icon
* [http://anjosdalucy.pt.vc/ Anjos da Lucy - Luciana Abreu Fan Site] pt icon
* [http://luciana-abreu.pt.vc/ Fan Lucy - Luciana's Fan Site] pt icon