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Biography
BLP sources|date=October 2009Infobox musical artist | name = Vikki Carr| image =Vikki Carr 1974.JPG| caption =Carr in 1974.| image_size =220px| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1941|07|19| death_date =| origin = El Paso, Texas , United States | instrument = Guitar | genre = Latin pop pop music|Pop Traditional pop Mariachi | occupation = Singing|Singer | years_active = 1962–present| label = Liberty Records|Liberty , Columbia Records|Columbia , Universal Music Group|UMG | associated_acts =| website = http://www.vikkicarr.com/| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments =Vikki Carr (born Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona ; July 19, 1941) is an United States|American singing|singer and humanitarian . She has performed in a variety of music genres, including jazz , pop music|pop and country music|country , but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish language|Spanish .
Career
After taking the stage name 'Vikki Carr', she signed with Liberty Records in 1962. Her first single to achieve success was " He's a Rebel ", which in 1962 reached No. 5 in Australia and No. 115 in the United States. Producer Phil Spector heard Carr cutting the song in the studio and immediately recorded a cover version billed to The Crystals that reached No. 1 in the United States. In 1966, Carr toured South Vietnam with actor / comedian Danny Kaye to entertain American troops there. The following year her album It Must Be Him (album)|It Must Be Him was nominated for three Grammy Awards . The It Must Be Him (song)|title track reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in 1967. "It Must Be Him" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a music recording sales certification|gold disc .cite book | first= Joseph | last= Murrells | year= 1978 | title= The Book of Golden Discs | edition= 2nd | publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd | location= London | page= 217 | isbn= 0-214-20512-6 She had two other song s make the United States|US Top 40 : 1968's "The Lesson" and 1969's "With Pen in Hand". Around this time, Dean Martin called her "the best girl singer in the business". Carr had 10 single (music)|singles which made the US pop charts and 13 albums which made the US pop album charts.
In 1968, she taped six specials for London Weekend Television|London Weekend TV . She appeared on various television programs, such as American Broadcasting Company|ABC 's The Bing Crosby Show in the 1964-1965 season. In 1970, she was named "Woman of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times . She guest-hosted The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1973. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1981. Carr also achieved the rare feat of singing for five presidents during her career: Richard Nixon , Gerald Ford , Ronald Reagan , George H. W. Bush|George Bush , and Bill Clinton . Ford writes in his autobiography , A Time To Heal (1979 book)|A Time to Heal , that when Carr appeared at the White House , she asked the president, "What Mexican dish do you like? " His response: "I like you." He goes on to write that the First Lady was not pleased: "Betty overheard the exchange, and needless to say, she wasn't wild about it." Citation needed|date=February 2007 In the 1980s and 1990s Carr had enormous success in the Latin music world, winning Grammy Awards for Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album|Best Mexican-American Performance in 1986 for her album Simplemente Mujer ; Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album|Best Latin Pop Album in 1992 for Cosas del Amor (Vikki Carr album)|Cosas del Amor ; and Best Mexican-American Performance in 1995 for Recuerdo a Javier Solis . http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/ grammy.com searchable database She also received Grammy nominations for the discs Brindo a La Vida, Al Bolero, A Ti (1993) and Emociones (Vikki Carr album)|Emociones (1996). Her numerous Spanish (language)|Spanish -language chart-topper|hit singles include "Total", "Discúlpame", "Déjame", "Hay Otro en Tu Lugar", "Esos Hombres", "Mala Suerte" and " Cosas del Amor (song)|Cosas del Amor ". The latter song spent more than 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 and platinum in Mexico , Chile , Puerto Rico , Venezuela , Costa Rica , Colombia and Ecuador .
In 1999 she taped a Public Broadcasting Service|PBS TV special, Vikki Carr: Memories, Memorias , in which she performed popular bilingual tunes from the 1940s and 1950s. Her guests were Pepe Aguilar , Arturo Sandoval and Jack Jones (singer)|Jack Jones . In 2001, she released a bilingual holiday album, The Vikki Carr Christmas Album .
In 2002, she appeared to great acclaim in a Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles production of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies , which also featured Hal Linden , Patty Duke and Harry Groener . In 2006, Carr made a cameo appearance in a straight-to-video thriller called Puerto Vallarta Squeeze. In 2008, Carr hosted a Public Broadcasting Service|PBS TV special, Fiesta Mexicana , which celebrated the music and dance of Mexico. Later that year she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Recording Academy. She marked the occasion with an appearance on the Latin Grammy telecast in which she performed "Cosas del Amor" with Olga Tañón and Jenni Rivera .
Charitable work
Respected as both an musician|artist and a humanitarian , she devotes time to many charities including the United Way of America|United Way , the American Lung Association , the Muscular Dystrophy Association and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital|St. Jude's Hospital . For 22 years she held benefit concerts to support Holy Cross High School in San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio , Texas . In 1971, she established the Vikki Carr Scholarship Foundation, dedicated to offering college scholarships to Hispanic students in California and Texas. To date, the Foundation has awarded more than 280 scholarships totaling over a quarter of a million dollars.
In " List_of_Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus_episodes#1._Whither_Canada.3F|Whither Canada? ", the first episode of '' Monty Python's Flying Circus , there is a running gag about pigs being killed, usually by being accidentally sat upon. During the final credits for the episode, an announcer ( John Cleese ) says, "And here is the final score: Pigs 9, British bipeds 4. The Pigs go on to meet Vikki Carr in the final."
In " The Nanny " episode "Strange Bedfellows", Fran ( Fran Drescher ) celebrates the retirement of a fellow nanny, played by Tyne Daly , by giving her the newest CD from Vikki Carr, who happens to be the retiring nanny's favorite singer.
In " Moonstruck ", starring Cher and Nicolas Cage , when Loretta Castorini comes home to tell her father ( Vincent Gardenia ) that she is engaged to Johnny Cammerieri, Cher's character and her father go up to tell her mother the news. The family has a heated exchange over who shall pay for the wedding. Loretta's father ends the fight by putting on a Vikki Carr record. The mother, Mrs. Castorini ( Olympia Dukakis ) alleges that "Now he's going to listen to that Vikki Carr record and when he comes to bed he won't touch me."
In " Vanilla Sky ", starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz , David Ames is given music options from Sofia Serrano: Jeff Buckley or Vikki Carr. He picked both, simultaneously.
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External links
http://www.vikkicarr.com/ Vikki Carr official site
http://www.vikkicarr.net/ Vikki Carr official fan club (fan site)
IMDb name|id=0139888|name=Vikki Carr
http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/vikki-carr/3568 Vikki Carr at Billboard.com
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