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Paula Anne Scharf-Daily, better known by her stage name Apollo Smile, is a songwriter, singer and voice actress. She has several albums and has done voice acting for different games, including Sega titles like Space Channel 5, and the Sonic the Hedghog series.

History[]

Scharf was born with a twisted hip tendon, leading her mother to enroll her in physical activity at the age of 3 to treat it. Thus from early childhood a trained dancer and gymnast, once she graduated Guilford High School in 1985, she went to study at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia) and then the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City. While introducing herself to a college student in New York he misheard Paula as "Apollo", and went on to say that it fit her despite being a male name as the Greek god Apollo "represents music, dance, light, and poetry", so she went with it. The latter part of her name came as a producer suggested an equally different surname, exploiting Scharf's oft-complimented smile. She legally changed her name to Apollo Smile in 1991.

An injury made Scharf opt to seek a singing career, working with producer Freddie "Groove Commander" Richmond. After contributing the song "Let's Rock" for A&M Records' soundtrack for the 1989 film Lost Angels, once a Los Angeles friend of Richmond visited his studio, she was impressed with the songs he was working with Smile, and smuggled a tape of theirs to a Geffen Records executive. Soon the A&R man went to New York to court Smile, and four months later she had signed with DGC Records. In 1990, Smile's song "Thunderbox" was featured on the soundtrack album for the Tom Cruise film Days of Thunder, and the following year she released a self-titled album, from which came the track . However, afterwards Smile was dropped along with most of DGC's signees.

Filmography[]

Anime[]

  • Wild Cardz - Coco Hearts

TV series[]

  • Megas XLR - Nova

Video games[]

  • Battle Arena Toshinden - Tracy
  • Voltage Fighters: Gowcaizer - Karin Son

Credits[]

Voice acting[]

External links[]

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