Souza was born in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Vigário Geral in 1968, into a musical family.

There, in 1993, after supposedly being discovered performing in a club by producer Emanuele Asti, he made her part of Italian music project Corona,[2][3][4] where she was hired to lip sync to the vocals of Jenny B. and Sandy Chambers.

An album of the same name was released in 1995 in Europe and topped the charts in several countries, gaining a platinum disc after selling more than 1 million copies.

Corona participated as a guest in a concert named Angel Live, dedicated to John Paul II in 2006, and in that same year she released her comeback single called "Back In Time", which was the first single that featured Olga de Souza as the original vocalist.

[2] Since May 2014, she has appeared as a contestant on the game show Hora do Faro aired on Brazilian TV channel Rede Record.

[3] In 2010, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera quoted that Souza's fortune was 10 million euros.