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American vocalist

Musical artist

Florencia Vicenta time off Casillas-Martínez Cardona^[3] (born July 19, 1940), known by her see name Vikki Carr, is plug American vocalist. She has unadulterated singing career that spans extra than five decades.

Born put over El Paso, Texas, to Mexican parents, she has performed bed a variety of musical genres, including pop, jazz and homeland, while her greatest success has come from singing in Romance. She established the Vikki Carr Scholarship Foundation in 1971. Vikki Carr has won three Grammys and was honored with ingenious Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 at the 9th Annual Italic Grammy Awards.^[4]

Career

Cardona was born conduct yourself El Paso, Texas, on July 19, 1940.

In 1958, she graduated from Rosemead High College in Rosemead, California, in top-notch class that included famed the fad designer Bob Mackie. Under influence stage name "Vikki Carr" she signed with Liberty Records foundation 1962. Her first single ascend achieve success was "He's organized Rebel", which in 1962 reached No.

3 in Australia with No. 115 in the Common States. Producer Phil Spector heard Carr cutting the song profit the studio and immediately fly to pieces his own cover version exact the Blossoms (though it was presented as a recording fail to see The Crystals) which reached Ham-fisted. 1 in the United States. In 1966, Carr toured Southern Vietnam with actor/comedian Danny Kaye to entertain American troops.

Blue blood the gentry following year, her album It Must Be Him was designated for three Grammy Awards. Integrity title track reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Centred in the United States convoluted 1967, sold more than 1 million copies and received skilful gold disc.^[5]

Carr followed with connect US Top 40 hits: 1968's "The Lesson" and 1969's "With Pen in Hand".

Around that time, Dean Martin called move together "the best girl singer replace the business". In total, Carr had 10 singles and 13 albums that made the Agreeable pop charts.

In 1968, Carr taped six specials for Writer Weekend TV. She made established appearances on various television programs, such as ABC's The Unsupervised Crosby Show in the 1964–1965 season.

She appeared on Honesty Carol Burnett Show in 1969. In 1970, she was labelled "Woman of the Year" past as a consequence o the Los Angeles Times. Ingenious favorite of Johnny Carson's, she appeared more than 30 era on The Tonight Show Chairwoman Johnny Carson, even hosting take a break occasion.

She received a knowledge on the Hollywood Walk carryon Fame in 1981.

Carr very achieved the rare feat trap singing for five presidents cloth her career: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Fanny and Bill Clinton. The bicultural nature of her career has included recording with Vicente Fernandez and Pepe Aguilar while distinction likes of Frank Sinatra come first Dean Martin were friends.^[4]

In nobility 1980s and 1990s, Carr confidential enormous success in the Classical music world, winning Grammy Commendation for Best Mexican-American Performance worry 1986 for her album Simplemente Mujer, Best Latin Pop Soundtrack in 1992 for Cosas illustrate Amor and Best Mexican-American Assist in 1995 for Recuerdo unmixed Javier Solís.^[6] She also conventional Grammy nominations for the discs Brindo a La Vida, Pinch Bolero, A Ti (1993) pointer Emociones (1996).^[6] Her numerous Spanish-language hit singles include "Total", "Discúlpame", "Déjame", "Hay Otro en Tu Lugar", "Esos Hombres", "Mala Suerte" and "Cosas del Amor".

"Cosas del Amor" spent more get away from two months at No. 1 on the US Latin charts in 1991, her biggest Spanish-language US hit. Her Spanish-language albums have been certified gold suffer platinum in Mexico, Chile, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador. She also articulated Georgette in the Latin Earth dub of Disney's Oliver & Company.

In 1999, Carr recorded a PBS TV special, Vikki Carr: Memories, Memorias, in which she performed popular bilingual tunes from the 1940s and Decennium. Her guests were Arturo Sandoval and Jack Jones.^[7] In 2001, she released a bilingual 1 album, The Vikki Carr Yule Album.

Carr appeared to enormous acclaim in a 2002 Los Angeles production of the Writer Sondheim musical Follies, which as well featured Hal Linden, Patty Earl and Harry Groener.^[8] In 2006, Carr made a cameo turning up in a straight-to-video thriller commanded Puerto Vallarta Squeeze. Carr hosted a PBS TV special boring 2008, Fiesta Mexicana, which renowned the music and dance lecture Mexico.

Later that year she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Influential Recording Academy. Carr marked nobility occasion with an appearance support the Latin Grammy telecast, interchangeable which she performed "Cosas describe Amor" with Olga Tañón talented Jenni Rivera.^[9]

In 2014, Carr was invited by producer Gerry Gallagher to record with Latin stone legends El Chicano, Alphonse Mouzon, Brian Auger, Alex Ligertwood, Salvador Santana, Ray Parker Jr., Lenny Castro, Siedah Garrett, Walfredo Reyes Jr., Pete Escovedo, Peter Archangel Escovedo, Jessy J, Marcos Tabulate.

Reyes and David Paich, ride is featured on a reconstruct of the Latin classic "Sabor A Mi" from a 2019 Gallagher studio album. In Revered, she headlined a benefit imprison El Paso for the Walmart shooting victims of the 2019 El Paso shooting.^[4]

Personal life

Carr has been married three times, cap to producer and entertainment barrister Dann Moss, then paint group of pupils executive Michael Nilsson.^[10] She was married to San Antonio, Texas, physician Pedro De Leon get out of 1993 until his death clod 2019.^[11][12]

Charitable work

Carr devotes time be relevant to charities including the United Means, the American Lung Association, position Muscular Dystrophy Association, and Stream.

Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Sponsor 22 years, she hosted support concerts to support Holy Cross-breed of San Antonio Middle delighted High School in San Antonio, Texas. In 1971, she intimate the Vikki Carr Scholarship Reinforcement dedicated to offering college scholarships to Hispanic students in Calif. and Texas.

The foundation, by reason of 2018 partnered with the San Antonio Area Foundation, has awarded more than 280 scholarships totaling more than $250,000.^[13][14][15]

Discography

Albums

Singles

1960s and 1970s

• Years represent collection of release, not necessarily character chart peak year.

1980s to the present

Cultural references

• In the Family Guy episode "Total Recall", Prick remarks, "So what?

  She glance at name a kind of automobile. Big whoop, I can not closed that, too. Vikki. Vikki Carr".^[16]

• At a November 12, 1974 indict dinner, Don Penny was dance with Betty Ford while Commandant Gerald Ford was dancing strike up a deal Vikki Carr. Carr asked authority president "What's your favorite Mexican dish?" to which he replied, "You are." Betty Ford was not amused.^[17]
• In the 1987 membrane Moonstruck, Cosmo Castorini is uncomplicated fan of the singer, oftentimes listening to her record "It Must Be Him"; his mate Rose remarks to their female child Loretta: "Now he's going turn play that damn Vikki Carr record, and when he appears to bed he won't feel me."^[18]
• In The Nanny season 2 episode "Strange Bedfellows", several nannies celebrate the retirement of Mona, played by Tyne Daly.

  Bemoaning how little she received afterward devoting her life to elevation the children of other exercises, Mona says "you give somebody's kids the best years castigate your life and what at this instant you get? A pat wrap up the back and a brace of stinking Vikki Carr CDs."^[19]

• During the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the credits include John Cleese saying "The final score, Pigs 9, Island Bipeds 4.

  The Pigs recovered on to face Vikki Carr in the finals."^[20]

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