Sabrina Salerno performing her first hit single "Sexy girl". Performance was recorded in Russia february 1989.
Sabrina's debut single "Sexy Girl" was released 1987. Produced by Claudio Cecchetto/Joseph Paduano, it became a top 20 hit in her native Italy as well as in Germany.
In late 1987, she released her first album, Sabrina, which was entirely sung in English. In addition to "Sexy Girl", the album included Sabrina's international top five hit "Boys (Summertime Love)" (
#1 in France, Switzerland and Spain,
#3 in the UK Singles Chart) which has sold more than 1.5 million copies to date worldwide, and "Hot Girl", a top 20 hit in some European countries. "Boys" video is famous because Sabrina's breasts were jumping so much that nipple was showing. In 1988, Sabrina received "The Best European Singer" award during the Festivalbar event, and enjoyed another European-wide summer hit with the single "All of Me (Boy Oh Boy)" (produced by Stock, Aitken & Waterman). Later in that year, her second album, Super Sabrina, was released, and she established herself as a European sex symbol thanks to the raunchy videos that accompanied hits such as "My Chico" (
#1 in Italy) and "Like a Yo-Yo" (produced by Giorgio Moroder). The latter became the TV theme of Odiens.
Thanks to the success of the albums and her sexy image, she was invited to perform in several European TV shows and concerts such as the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1988. Another famous performance was in 1989 at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, where fifty-thousand people gathered over three days to enjoy Sabrina's show and music. In 1989, she starred in the Italian movie Fratelli d'Italia directed by Neri Parenti, with actors such as Christian De Sica, Jerry Cala, Massimo Boldi, and released a remix album called Super Remix, as well as a new single, "Gringo".
In 1990, Sabrina was the hostess of the weekly prime time TV show Ricomincio da 2 with Raffaella Carrà on Rai Due, and appeared on the popular music show Festivalbar with a new single called "Yeah Yeah". she performed a duet with Italian singer Jo Squillo in singing "Siamo Donne". They performed together at 1991's Sanremo Music Festival to much acclaim. Sabrina's third studio album, Over the Pop, was released the same year, and for the first time she was allowed to co-write and produce some of the songs. Sabrina's desire for independence and distancing from her sexy image led to conflict with her management. only one more single, "Shadows of the Night" was released off it.
1995 "Cover Model", "Rockawillie" and "Angel Boy", which were minor hits in Italy and Scandinavian countries. Sabrina has also posed nude and topless numerous times, including playboy magazine.
In 1996 she released album and its two singles, "Fatta e Rifatta" and the title-track "Maschio Dove Sei", were surprisingly acclaimed by the critics.
In 1998 she host the TV show Cocco di mamma on Rai Uno. In tits show she had the chance to sing some Italian and international "summer hits" of the past, and these performances led to her commencing a music comeback.
In 1999, Sabrina released a new album, A Flower's Broken. She was a guest on the British TV show Eurotrash where she performed her new single "I Love You".
In 2002, Sabrina hosted another TV show on Italia 1 called Matricole & Meteore, in which she travelled the world in order to uncover the current situations of former stars such as Shannen Doherty, Al Corley, Gary Coleman, Jimmy Sommerville, Charlene Tilton and others.
In 2005 Sabrina also took part in ITV's Hit Me Baby One More Time where she sang the songs "Boys" and the Sugababes' "Hole in the Head". In November that year, Sabrina performed the songs "Boys" and "All of Me" in the Russian concert Дискотека 80-х. 2006 new song called "I Feel Love (Good Sensation)".
In 2007, Sabrina toured throughout the French Zénith venues with all her old hits, and also her own cover version of the disco song "Born to Be Alive". In August the same year, per...