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Judy Weiss (born 31 May 1972 in Berlin) is a German singer who became internationally renowned after singing "Vivo per Lei" with Andrea Bocelli in a German-Italian duet in 1996. Weiss sang in German, while Bocelli sang in Italian.

In 1994, she starred for the first time in a musical in the role of Anita in West Side Story . In 1995, she performed in Beauty and the Beast . She also played Macchina in the German musical Space Dream and Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame . She performs regularly with the jazz pianist Maria Baptist.

Weiss took her first piano lessons at the age of five. For eight years, she attended a conservatory for piano and singing, and afterwards the Music Academy Hanns Eisler. Weiss has a daughter who was born in November 2000.


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