Singer Connie Francis, a star of the Fifties and ‘60s recognized for her hits “Fairly Little Child” and “Silly Cupid,” has died, her publicist introduced.
She handed away on Wednesday on the age of 87. No trigger was disclosed.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart and excessive disappointment that I inform you of the passing of my pricey good friend Connie Francis final evening,” Ron Roberts, the president of Concetta Data, a music label owned by Francis and her royalties/copyright supervisor, wrote on Fb.
“I do know that Connie would approve that her followers are among the many first to study of this unhappy information,” he continued. “Extra particulars will comply with later.”
Francis had advised her followers in March that she was in a wheelchair “to keep away from undue strain on a difficult, painful hip” and was in remedy.
In a July 2 Fb publish, she stated she was within the hospital present process assessments “to find out the trigger(s) of the acute ache” she had been experiencing. That very same day, Francis stated she had been within the intensive care unit and was transferred to a personal room. Her final replace was on July 4, when she wished her followers a contented Fourth of July, including, “At present I’m feeling a lot better after a superb evening.”
The American pop singer was one of many top-charting vocalists of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s because of her commanding but candy voice.
She was greatest recognized for hits together with “Who’s Sorry Now” and “The place the Boys Are.”
Born Concetta Rosemarie Franconero, she grew up in an Italian-American household in New Jersey. She usually participated in expertise contests and pageants, singing and taking part in the accordion, as described in her 1984 autobiography, “Who’s Sorry Now?”
This previous 12 months, her 1962 observe “Fairly Little Child” resurged to the highest of the charts after going viral on TikTok.
Francis posted about her viral hit on Fb, writing in Could, “My because of TikTok and its members for the great, and oh so surprising, reception given to my 1961 recording ‘Fairly Little Child.'”
“The primary I realized of it was when Ron referred to as to advise me that I had ‘a viral hit.’ Clearly out of contact with present-day music statistics terminology, my preliminary response was to ask: ‘What’s that?'” she continued.
