[2] Vanessa Show was born José Mussi in La Banda, a town in Santiago del Estero Province, into an affluent family of cattlemen and slaughterers of Arab origin.

[3] Show began working as a revue backup dancer for important vedettes such as Nelida Lobato,[1] Nélida Roca, Susana Brunetti and Moria Casán.

[3] In 1974, she was the subject of the short documentary film Vanessa directed by Marie Louise Alemann, which documented the performer backstage as she transformed from master of ceremonies to showgirl.

[1] Back in Buenos Aires, she bought an apartment in Congreso, but due to constant harassment from the police and the Triple A—which labelled her a "sex terrorist"—decided to return to Europe.

[7] Her frankly open opinion about the romance that the football player Diego Maradona was having with famed Argentine transsexual Cris Miró was published in an article of Rating Cero.