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Steffanie Reiko Borges, best known in the years 1970-1980 under her stage name Steffanie is a Japanese American born in 1961, who has worked both as model and singer. Steffanie is the daughter of Hawaiian jazz singer Jimmy Borges and the Japanese Shizuko Yagi and she went to live in Honolulu, Hawaii soon after her birth. She began her working career in Japan as a model for advertising and TV campaigns. Borges started her singing career recording two singles in between 1977 and 1978 and an album of pop songs in 1978. In 1982, with the name Stevany she sang the theme for the soundtrack of the anime movie Urusei Yatsura: My Love.

After a few auditions in 1991, she replaced singer Terada Keiko within the all-female Japanese metal band Show-Ya, using her full name Steffanie Borges. She remained in the band for six years, performing a highly media covered concert in North Korea in June 1991 and recording with Show-Ya the single "Flame of the Angels" in 1992 and the album Touch the Sun in 1995. She left the band in 1997 and moved to Los Angeles in the United States with her husband Randy Juergenson, who had worked with her during the recording sessions of Touch the Sun. She has since retired from the scene and lives in Tarzana, California.

Source: English Wikipedia