Caterina Valente

Caterina Valente (París, 14 de enero de 1931) es una cantante, guitarrista, bailarina, comediante y actriz italiana nacida en Francia, Su repertorio musical es muy variado e incluye jazz, schlager, pop, musicales, chanson y bossa nova.

Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931) is an Italian-French multilingual singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress. Valente is a polyglot; she speaks six languages, and sings in eleven. While she is best-known as a European performer, Valente also spent part of her career in the United States, where she performed alongside Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others.

Caterina Valente "In London" presents twenty swinging up-tempo numbers along with moody and sensitive interpretations of lounge-jazz tracks. These were recorded in 1963 at the London Decca Studios with an orchestra of up to 30 musicians under the direction of UK conductor Johnny Keating. Keating had made a name for himself with compositions for Percy Faith, André Previn, Stan Keaton, Nancy Wilson and Shirley Horn, among others. His arrangements were performed by artists such as Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr..

Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931) is a French multilingual singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress of Italian ethnicity. Valente is a polyglot; she speaks six languages, and sings in eleven.

Caterina Valente gehört zu den Hochbegabten des Showbusiness. Sie sprach schon in jungen Jahren sechs Sprachen, konnte tanzen, war Schauspielerin, Entertainerin, spielte Gitarre und konnte vor allem singen. Die darstellenden Künste waren von Kindesbeinen an ihr Lebensinhalt.

When Caterina Valente was elaborating the concept for her new international album in 1968, the radio speakers were still blasting out Scott McKenzie's 1967 hymn of praise for the flower generation of San Francisco: "Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair". The new "swinging London" became the place of birth of new recordings by artists such as The Beatles, The Kinks and Petula Clark. And so, Caterina Valente and Eric van Aro, who was her husband and manager at that time, decided to do a tribute to sixties pop. They called the LP "Sweet Beat", centred around four successful songs by British artists plus four more hits that were actually performed by American artists in their original version.

Caterina Valente gehört zu den Hochbegabten des Showbusiness. Sie sprach schon in jungen Jahren sechs Sprachen, konnte tanzen, war Schauspielerin, Entertainerin, spielte Gitarre und konnte vor allem singen. Die darstellenden Künste waren von Kindesbeinen an ihr Lebensinhalt.

Der 25. Oktober 1929 war für Maria und Giuseppe Valente, die mit ihren drei Kindern Nina, Pietro und Silvio seit 1924 in Paris lebten, tCaterina Valenteatsächlich ein 'schwarzer Freitag'. Maria Valente hatte als Varieté-Star auf den großen Bühnen der Welt Erfolg und war auch in den USA so bekannt, dass sie mit ihrer Familie dort leben und arbeiten wollte. Der Börsen-Crash verhinderte diese Pläne, denn Familie Valente verlor, wie so viele andere auch, alle Ersparnisse. Sie blieben also in Paris, wo am 14. Januar 1931 die jüngste Tochter von Maria und Giuseppe zur Welt kam: Caterina.