Monica Stucchi (born 28 May 1962), best known as Valerie Dore, is an iconic entertainer of French and Italian descent, born in Monte Carlo. She rose to fame during the mid 1980s as part of the Italo disco-New wave project of the same name and became an influence for such acts as Sandra Cretu, Modern Talking, Silent Circle, Sabrina Salerno and many more. Early career Stucchi was a fashion model when she was discovered at the age of 22 by the famous music family Nicolosi (Lino, Pino and Rossana Nicolosi) and Roberto Gasparini in order to serve as the performer of their project "Valerie Dore", and its first song "The Night". "The Night" was considerably influenced by a new sound of Italo disco that Gazebo and Savage had introduced as "Romantic Dance". The song was actually sung by the iconic Italian singer Dora Carofiglio and Valerie Dore was initially to become of Carofiglio's many pseudonyms. Stucchi lip-synched the song, which b