Connie Francis died, interpreted with classics from the 50s and 60s and the recent Tiktok viral “Pretty Little Baby”

Connie Francisthe pop singer who headed the lists of successes with classics from the 50s and 60s as “Stupid Cupid”, “WHERE THE BOYS ARE” And the recently viral from Tiktok “Pretty Little Baby”he died. He was 87 years old.

Ron Roberts, a lifelong friend of Francis and president of his record label, Concetta Records, announced the news for the first time in a Facebook post on Wednesday night, which Francis’s official account repeated. “With great regret and deep sadness I inform you of the death of my dear friend Connie Francis last night”wrote. “I know Connie would approve that his fans be among the first to find out this sad news. More details soon.”

He had recently been hospitalized for “an extreme pain”, but on July 4 he had published on Facebook that “he felt much better after a good night.”

Francis became one of the most important female singers of the 50s and 60 “Stupid Cupid”, “Who’s Sorry Now” and “Frankie”. In 1960, he became the first woman to reach number 1 at the Billboard Hot 100 with “Everybody’s Hivebody’s Fool”and later became the first woman to have three songs at number 1.

Recently, he experienced resurgence when face B “Pretty Little Baby” He went viral on Tiktok, which resulted in more than 30 million new reproductions of the song and his entry into the Global and American lists of Spotify, in addition to reaching the top 5 of the Iunes pop song list in the United States. Francis then joined Tiktok, where he thanked his new fans in a video, saying that he was “stunned and excited” for the popularity of the song more than 60 years later.

Connie Francis’s extensive trajectory

Francis became one of the first record artists to regularly publish albums sung entirely in other languages, such as Italian, Yidis, German, Romanian, Spanish and Irish. His 1960 German song, “Die Liebe Ist Ein Seltsames Spiel”reached number 1 in West Germany and made it an enormously popular artist in Europe, representing the personification of the American pop singer for world masses. Even during the Cold War, his songs were interpreted and well received in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.

In the mid -1960s, Francis’s domain in the American lists began to weaken with the arrival of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. However, he remained a successful artist and constantly exhausted his concerts in the United States and worldwide.

During the last years of his career, Francis continued to record music and acting live, heading several concerts in Las Vegas. In 2017 he published another autobiography, “Among my souvenirs”and officially retired in 2018.