“Who I'm sorry now?” Singer was 87

Connie Francis died at the age of 87, two weeks after it became known that she had been hospitalized due to “extreme pain”.

Francis' Enger Freund, Ron Roberts, the President of the musician label Concetta Records, confirmed the news early Thursday, July 17th.

Roberts wrote: “With a heavy heart and extreme grief, I inform you about the death of my dear friend Connie Francis last night.”

“I know that Connie would agree that her fans are among the first to learn about these sad news.

The news comes after Francis confirmed in a Facebook post on July 4 that she “felt much better” after a good night, two days after it was confirmed that she was taken to the hospital.

The musicians revealed that on July 2, she was “back in the hospital” and told the fans that they “carried out tests and checks to determine the causes of the extreme pain I experienced”.

Francis had recently made headlines because her song “Pretty Little Baby” from 1962 became a big hit at Tiktok, 63 years after she recorded the B side.

Francis, a contemporary of Elvis Presley and Brenda Lee, was one of the most popular singers of the 1950s and early 1960s with the top 10 singles like “Who's Tutay's Now?”. Francis was the first woman who had a goal no. 1 Advertising board Hot 100 with her 1960 track “Everybody's someone's fool”.

The singer was born in 1937 Concetta Franconero in Newark, New Jersey. Already 4 years old, she took talent competitions and pageants on encouragement, singing and playing her father's accordion. Later she appeared in television programs and was a performer at NBCS Children in the start time. She chose Connie Francis as an artist name.

In 1955 she signed a admission contract with MGM Records, but most of her early singles were unsuccessful. The label would drop her, but her father convinced her, a version of “Who is now sorry?” The last attempt at a hit in 1957.

“I had 18 bomb records,” Francis told Upi in 1996. “He wanted me to record a song in 1923. American bandstand I would laugh directly from the show. 'He said: “If you don't take this song, dummy, the only way to continue American bandstand is to be sitting on TV. ''

The track was also bad – until she debuted on Dick Clarks American bandstand 1958. Then it became a hit in both the USA and Great Britain, and Francis and Clark would form a lifelong friendship.

From there, Francis' career grew with follow-up hits like “My Happiness”, “Lipstift on their collar” and “under my souvenirs”. Your album from 1959 Connie Francis sings Italian favorites became her most successful and the 1960s “everyone's fool” became her first number 1 in the United States – and the first of a solo artist on the Advertising board Hot 100, which was launched in 1958.

Francis also found international success, partly thanks to their resumption of their songs in different languages. She had two more No. 1 hits with “My Heart has her own mind” (which just three months after “Everything's someone's fool” entered first place) and “not break the heart that loves you”.

“I was sitting on the top of the world and didn't know what problems were yet,” she said in 1992 about her early career. Francis also appeared in a handful of films in the 1960s, including the 1960 hits Where the boys areA teen-Rom-Com that cost a young George Hamilton.

Francis became less successful than the music industry changed at the end of the 1960s and then suffered a number of personal tragedies. In 1974 she was the victim of rape in a Long Island Motel Room. In 1977 she had a nose operation that temporarily lost her voice. And in 1981 her brother George was murdered by the mafia.

In the same year she started a career comeback, but was hindered with her mental health by her fights. Her father had her committed to several psychiatric hospitals, and she survived a suicide attempt from 1984. In the same year she published her first memoirs. Who is sorry now?.

“To make a short story for a long time in the 80s, I was involuntarily committed to mental institutions in five different countries in five different countries” in five different countries ” The village voice In 2011. “I was diagnosed as a bipolar, add, ADHD and a few other letters, of which the scientific community had never heard. A few years later it was found that after a terrible series of events in my life I had a post -traumatic stress disorder.”

She worked with Ronald Reagan's presidential administration in cooperation with a task force for violent crimes and was an advocate of victims of rape. In 2010 she worked with Mental Health America to raise awareness of the effects of trauma and treatments.

“I tried to see humor in everything, even when I was in a mental institution,” she said to The Oklahoman 2018. “But I have to say that the support of the public was also incredibly uplifting. They saw me through the best and worst times and never stopped writing from the whole world to encourage me.” Francis released another memoir, Among my souvenirsin 2017.

Francis had a relationship with the singer Bobby in it at the beginning of her career, but her father broke her apart. In it, she looked at the love of her life in 1973 at the age of 37. “My personal life is a regret from A to Z,” said Francis in 1984 to People.

She was married four times. Her first husband was Dick Kanellis; They married in 1964 and divorced after five months. She married Izzy Marion in 1971 and was shining 10 months later. She married Joseph Garzilli in 1973. They adopted a son in 1974, Joseph Garzilli Jr .. The couple separated in 1977. In 1985 she married a fourth time with Bob Parkinson's, but the marriage only lasted a few months.

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Francis told people in 2017 that she wanted to remember: “Not so much for the heights I have reached, but for the depths I came from … I hope I did it well.”

Francis is survived by her son.