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Sandra Carla de Lopes Morato e Leal Pires ![]() | |
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Born | 26 August 1969 ![]() |
Occupation | Singer ![]() |
Sandra Carla de Lopes Morato e Leal Pires (born 26 August 1969) is a Portuguese singer and actor.
Sandra Pires was born on 26 August 1969 in Dili in Portuguese Timor. [1] She was initially raised by her grandparents in Portugal, then moved with her parents to Australia as a teenager. At age 15, she won the Australian television talent show Pot of Gold and went on to sing with a number of Australian bands, including Fifi Blue and The Flames and Spank You Very Much. [2]
She signed with BMG and moved to Vienna in 1992. In 1997, she released an English-language cover, "Here I AM", of Eros Ramazotti's hit "Adesso Tu" . [1]
In 2005, she played Maria in The Sound of Music at the Vienna Volksoper , the first time the musical had ever been performed in Austria, the setting of the story. [3] In 2010, she played Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, also at the Volksoper. [1]
In 2021, she won season two of The Masked Singer Austria disguised as a baby elephant. [4]