Ana Lúcia Moniz was born on September 9, 1976 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Lúcia is the daughter of two musicians - Carlos Alberto Moniz (A famous Portuguese conductor from the Azores) and Maria do Amparo.
Lúcia's musical career began at an early age at the Saint Cecilia Academy of Music in Lisbon.

After completing her sixth year of musical schooling she traveled as an exchange student to Minnesota in the United States,
where she attended Eden Prairie High School.
Here she joined the school's concert choir, where she would go on to be elected best composer at the school for the pieces she had authored during the school year.

Upon returning to Portugal she took a course on design, but due to an ongoing quantity of musical requests she ended up quitting.
Now eighteen years old, Lúcia accepted roles in some Portuguese soap-operas and plays, thus opening up a career in acting as well as singing.
Lúcia was still pretty unknown in Portugal when at the age of 19 she performed in the nationally regarded RTP Song Festival the Portuguese
theme "O Meu Coração Não Tem Cor" (my heart has no colour), unexpectedly reaching the finals, which took place on March 7, 1996.
Lucia went on to win first place only four points ahead of the second place winner. She was awarded with representing Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest,
where she took home a surprising sixth placing amongst 23 contestants - best ever for Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest.

In 1999 Lucia release her first album entitled Magnolia, after the name of the location in the United States where it was recorded.
The album includes rhythmic pop songs totally unlike her Eurovision entry, both in Portuguese and in English. The album went gold and was a very successful
platform for her follow-up release, 67, which was recorded in Boston. It was made with her longtime producer and collaborator Nuno Bettencourt
and released by EMI(Portugal) in 2002. The album was named after the number of days it took to complete. It matched her debut by also going gold in her home country.