Bettina Soriat is an Austrian

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 singer.

Bettina Soriat is a singer, dancer, actress, comedienne, and choreographer. Her first success came with the girlgroup "Three Girl Madhouse" and their single-hit "Always gonna be around you" was released in 1990.

Bettina has appeared in musicals in Vienna, including: -

• "Robin Hood
  Robin Hood
  Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....
  
  " (1991)
• "Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1993)
• "Sweet Charity
  Sweet Charity
  Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse starring his wife and muse Gwen Verdon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria...
  
  " (1994)
• "Grease
  Grease (musical)
  Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
  
  " (1995)
• "Blondel" (1996)

As a long-time member of the Kim-Duddy-TV-Ballet, Bettina also appeared in shows like: -

• "Willkommen im Club" (1991) (Welcome in the Club)
• "Nix is fix" (1993/94)
• "Die Peter Alexander Show" (1995).

In 1997 she was Austria's Song Contest-representative with the song "One Step

One Step

"One Step" was the Austrian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, performed in German almost exclusively by Bettina Soriat....

". The song wasn't a great success, reaching No. 21 out of 24. Despite having an English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 title, the song is primarily in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

.

In the previous year she sang back-up vocals for Austria's George Nußbaumer at the same contest. She is currently married to Michael Niavarani

Michael Niavarani

Michael Niavarani is an Austrian-Persian stand-up comedian in the tradition of Austrian cabaret, an author and a TV and movie actor. Niavarani, whose comedic work often draws on his inter-cultural upbringing, is a central figure of the Austrian cabaret scene...

 and is a member of the Simpl Revue since 1999. They currently have one child together.

External links

Bettina Soriat's profile on IMDb http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1086591/
"One Step" lyrics (with English translation) http://www.diggiloo.net/?1997at