Hi Neil
Vikki will be delighted to hear from you.
You can reach her at this address :
Vikki Carr
P.O Box 780968
San Antonio
TX 78278
USA
Vikki Carr
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Oh that is good news Mariana, he will be glad to know I have lots of very rare material. I have met het several times. She is delightful. I have lots of Shirley memorabilia. I`m not one of those crazy fans just appreciate good music and superb artistry. My friend says my house is like the Hard Rock Cafe(but the bar service is better)Shirley and Matt worked together many times and poignantly on his last tv appearance. She stated that true friendship was a rare commodity...but she would always remember Matt as a true friend. I`ll bet they had some great conversations, I`d love to have been a fly on the wall.
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Hi Mariana & Neil
It's 4.28am here and strangely enough, it is one of those sleepless nights.
Mariana is right Neil......I am such a big fan of the Dame. She even sent me a large autographed colour photo one Christmas after I wrote to her.
I am now very curious what your rare Bassey stuff is.
Can you tell me more Neil?
Have you bought the new CD from BGO? The 2 albums on that CD are two of her very best - This Is My Life/Does Anybody Miss Me.
Vikki sends me autographed photos every year through Vito, the president of her fan club. They are not just signed, she writes a short personal message to me. Vikki is such a sweet person who really appreciates all her fans. I know she will respond to your mail.
Thank you for being concerned about the resort island that I reside in. Things are back to normal. However, I try to avoid crowded places like shopping malls for the time being due to Influenza A.
It's 4.28am here and strangely enough, it is one of those sleepless nights.
Mariana is right Neil......I am such a big fan of the Dame. She even sent me a large autographed colour photo one Christmas after I wrote to her.
I am now very curious what your rare Bassey stuff is.
Can you tell me more Neil?
Have you bought the new CD from BGO? The 2 albums on that CD are two of her very best - This Is My Life/Does Anybody Miss Me.
Vikki sends me autographed photos every year through Vito, the president of her fan club. They are not just signed, she writes a short personal message to me. Vikki is such a sweet person who really appreciates all her fans. I know she will respond to your mail.
Thank you for being concerned about the resort island that I reside in. Things are back to normal. However, I try to avoid crowded places like shopping malls for the time being due to Influenza A.
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Vikki Carr Celebrates 50 Years of Music in San Jacinto
by Robert Kreutzer
Roverside (California) Press-Enterprise, June 24, 2009
As a young singer hitting the scene in the early 1960s, Vikki Carr didn't set out to change the musical landscape. In the coming years, though, she would pave the way for the likes of Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Daddy Yankee.
And while some of those performers may have seen the best days of their careers, 50 years later, Carr is still a dynamo. Carr is doing a series of shows highlighting her long career, one that has seen pop success, great stage shows and one of the first artists to cross the Spanish-English divide.
"The show is a celebration of my 50 years in the business," Carr explained, talking by telephone. "All during my career I have done songs and shows that I have loved, and I wanted to do something that reflects who I am. I have done Broadway -- 'South Pacific,' 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' -- many things that I have been proud of. But I am Mexican-American and I have always done some songs in Spanish."
Born Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona in El Paso, Carr explained that her stage name was not an attempt to hide her Mexican heritage -- that it was simply a business consideration. Still, she recalls with some regret, it did hurt her father.
"I never had any kind of pressure to change my name," said Carr. "When you're an entertainer, it's best if you have a catchy name that everyone will remember. It was done for that reason, and everyone did it. It did hurt my dad when I changed it, but I promised him that when I got well-known that everyone would know me by who I really am"
Carr's first hit was "He's a Rebel," which went to number five on the Australian pop charts. That would be followed by "It Must Be Him," which charted throughout the English-speaking world and earned Carr three Grammy nominations.
Other hits, Grammy nominations and stardom would follow in the coming years. She performed at the White House for several presidents. Along the way she would perform with and get to know some of the grandest names in the pop music pantheon -- Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tom Jones and Spanish-language legends like Luis Miguel.
By the late 1970s, though, in the eyes of her record company, Carr's star power had diminished a bit. She said her label also had Barbra Streisand and could only keep one. The label chose Streisand. Disappointing at the time, this would usher in one of the greatest periods of Carr's career -- tremendous success singing in Spanish.
"When things like that happen, I have to look at them as blessings. That led to my first Spanish album. The Mexican division came and said, 'We want Vikki Carr. We know she can sell records.' I've always wanted to be the bridge from this country to the norte de Mexico."
The move proved huge, extending Carr's chart success well into the '90s and making Carr a sort of ambassador for Spanish-language music to the English-speaking fans.
"I didn't see myself as a trailblazer at the time," Carr admitted, "but I do see myself as someone who opened the door for what a lot of other Latino artists wanted to do. I've had many artists come up to me and say, 'You're a legend to us. You've accomplished what a lot of us dream of -- success in the United States.'"
While Carr talks with pride about her success with Spanish-language music, she looks at her career as a whole, one that has pleased millions of fans worldwide.
"It's wonderful to go back and do these retro shows and see the love that pours from people," Carr said. "I feel happiest when I am making other people feel happy. I feel it's a sin to have a gift like that and not use it."
by Robert Kreutzer
Roverside (California) Press-Enterprise, June 24, 2009
As a young singer hitting the scene in the early 1960s, Vikki Carr didn't set out to change the musical landscape. In the coming years, though, she would pave the way for the likes of Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Daddy Yankee.
And while some of those performers may have seen the best days of their careers, 50 years later, Carr is still a dynamo. Carr is doing a series of shows highlighting her long career, one that has seen pop success, great stage shows and one of the first artists to cross the Spanish-English divide.
"The show is a celebration of my 50 years in the business," Carr explained, talking by telephone. "All during my career I have done songs and shows that I have loved, and I wanted to do something that reflects who I am. I have done Broadway -- 'South Pacific,' 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' -- many things that I have been proud of. But I am Mexican-American and I have always done some songs in Spanish."
Born Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona in El Paso, Carr explained that her stage name was not an attempt to hide her Mexican heritage -- that it was simply a business consideration. Still, she recalls with some regret, it did hurt her father.
"I never had any kind of pressure to change my name," said Carr. "When you're an entertainer, it's best if you have a catchy name that everyone will remember. It was done for that reason, and everyone did it. It did hurt my dad when I changed it, but I promised him that when I got well-known that everyone would know me by who I really am"
Carr's first hit was "He's a Rebel," which went to number five on the Australian pop charts. That would be followed by "It Must Be Him," which charted throughout the English-speaking world and earned Carr three Grammy nominations.
Other hits, Grammy nominations and stardom would follow in the coming years. She performed at the White House for several presidents. Along the way she would perform with and get to know some of the grandest names in the pop music pantheon -- Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tom Jones and Spanish-language legends like Luis Miguel.
By the late 1970s, though, in the eyes of her record company, Carr's star power had diminished a bit. She said her label also had Barbra Streisand and could only keep one. The label chose Streisand. Disappointing at the time, this would usher in one of the greatest periods of Carr's career -- tremendous success singing in Spanish.
"When things like that happen, I have to look at them as blessings. That led to my first Spanish album. The Mexican division came and said, 'We want Vikki Carr. We know she can sell records.' I've always wanted to be the bridge from this country to the norte de Mexico."
The move proved huge, extending Carr's chart success well into the '90s and making Carr a sort of ambassador for Spanish-language music to the English-speaking fans.
"I didn't see myself as a trailblazer at the time," Carr admitted, "but I do see myself as someone who opened the door for what a lot of other Latino artists wanted to do. I've had many artists come up to me and say, 'You're a legend to us. You've accomplished what a lot of us dream of -- success in the United States.'"
While Carr talks with pride about her success with Spanish-language music, she looks at her career as a whole, one that has pleased millions of fans worldwide.
"It's wonderful to go back and do these retro shows and see the love that pours from people," Carr said. "I feel happiest when I am making other people feel happy. I feel it's a sin to have a gift like that and not use it."