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 is known for her role in the 1983 miniseries Cinderella 80. Artistic life Bianco started her career at the 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 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 Angelis brothers signed her and became her record label Kangaroo Records/Polygram. They changed her name to Bonnie Bianco. From 1984 to 1985, Bianco was featured and sang and danced in the prime time Saturday Italian variety show Al Paradise. 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 Cinderella 80. 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. The duet "Stay" with Pierre Cosso went straight to No. 1 on the 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. In 1986, after several months of rest in Israel, Bianco decided 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 a Top 12 hit on the German charts. It was produced by Gunther Mende (Alexis, Falco) and Candy DeRouge. Bianco and her producer Christian De Walden had different views for her