Singer Connie Francis, a star of the Nineteen Fifties and ‘60s identified 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 expensive good friend Connie Francis final evening,” Ron Roberts, the president of Concetta Information, 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 informed her followers in March that she was in a wheelchair “to keep away from undue strain on a hard, painful hip” and was in remedy.
In a July 2 Fb submit, she mentioned she was within the hospital present process exams “to find out the trigger(s) of the intense ache” she had been experiencing. That very same day, Francis mentioned she had been within the intensive care unit and was transferred to a non-public room. Her final replace was on July 4, when she wished her followers a cheerful Fourth of July, including, “Right this moment I’m feeling significantly better after evening.”
The American pop singer was one of many top-charting vocalists of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s due to her commanding but candy voice.
She was finest identified 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 typically participated in expertise contests and pageants, singing and enjoying the accordion, as described in her 1984 autobiography, “Who’s Sorry Now?”
This previous yr, her 1962 monitor “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 due to 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 known 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.
