Rock & Roll / Teen
Years active 1943-present
Always click on pic's
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Born December 12, 1938 (age 81 [2018])
Connie Francis born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, (Dec. 12, 1937) is an American pop singer and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw. Despite several severe interruptions in her career, she is still active as a recording and performing artist.
History; 1938-1955: Early life and first appearances
Francis was born to an Italian-American family in the Italian Down Neck, or Ironbound, neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, the first child of George Franconero, Sr., and Ida Franconero (née Ferrari-di Vito), spending her first years in a Brooklyn neighborhood on Utica Avenue/St. Marks Avenue before the family moved to New Jersey. Growing up in an Italian-Jewish neighborhood, Francis became fluent in Yiddish, which would lead her later to record songs in Yiddish and Hebrew. … Read the Original text here >>> Connie Francis
Connie Francis ”20 All Time Greats” Polydor s 2391290 [1977]