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Cilla Black
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English singer and media personality (1943–2015)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Butter for Marie
- What's It All about Header
- Cilla Black's Blind Date
- Through the Years
- Step inside
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Film & TV
Acting · Vauxhall, Liverpool, England, UK
Priscilla Maria Veronica White is best known by her stage name Cilla Black. She rose to fame in the 1960s as a pop singer and her singles "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She hosted her own variety show titled "Cilla" in the 60s and 70s and was an occasional comedy actress. Her career had a massive resurgence in the mid-80s and 1990s were…
Known for
- Burt Bacharach at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2023
- Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2023
- If These Walls Could Sing — Self (archive footage)2022
- Our Cilla: The One and Only — Self (archive footage)2021
- Cilla at the BBC — Self - Performer2015
- Through the Keyhole — Self - Panelist2013
- Produced by George Martin — Self2012
- Keith Lemon's LemonAid — Self - Guest2012
- Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes — Self2011
- The Day John Lennon Died — Self2010
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1943
- Active to
- 2015
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 152,277
- Total plays
- 1,185,378
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Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), known by her stage name Cilla Black, was an English singer, actress, entertainer and media personality. Championed by The Beatles, she began her career as a singer in 1963, and her singles "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (1964) and "You're My World" (1964) both reached number one. Black had eleven Top Ten hits on the British charts between 1964 and 1971. In May 2010 new research published <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Cilla+Black">R
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities
· 1973 · cited 19,715x
- AN EXAMINATION OF THE DEGTJAREFF METHOD FOR DETERMINING SOIL ORGANIC MATTER, AND A PROPOSED MODIFICATION OF THE CHROMIC ACID TITRATION METHOD
· 1934 · cited 16,705x
- Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,041x
- Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,787x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,740x
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Key facts
- Born
- Priscilla Maria Veronica White , ( 1943-05-27 ) 27 May 1943, Vauxhall, Liverpool , England
- Died
- 1 August 2015 (2015-08-01) (aged 72), Estepona , Andalusia, Spain
- Resting place
- Allerton Cemetery , Liverpool
- Occupations
- Singer television presenter actress
- Years active
- 1963–2015
- Television
- Cilla Surprise Surprise Blind Date The Moment of Truth
- Spouse
- Bobby Willis ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1969 ; died 1999 )
- Genres
- Pop rock beat soul adult contemporary
- Instrument
- Vocals
- Works
- Discography
- Labels
- Parlophone EMI Towerbell Columbia Virgin
- Website
- cillablack .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.cillablack.com
- Image
- Cilla Black (1970).jpg
- Number of children
- 4
Show 9 more facts
- date of birth
- 1943-05-27
- date of death
- 2015-08-01
- nickname
- Cilla
- Commons category
- Cilla Black
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
- pseudonym
- Cilla Black
- name in native language
- Priscilla Maria Veronica Willis
- birth name
- Priscilla Maria Veronica White
- short name
- Cilla White
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Priscilla Maria Veronica Willis (née White; 27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), known professionally as Cilla Black, was an English singer, actress and television presenter.
Championed by her friends the Beatles, Black began her career as a singer in 1963. Her singles "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She had eleven top-ten hits on the UK Singles Chart between then and 1971 and an additional eight hits that made the top 40. In May 2010, new research published by BBC Radio 2 showed that her version of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" was the UK's biggest-selling single by a female artist in the 1960s. "You're My World" reached No. 14 in Canada and was also a modest hit in the U.S., peaking at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100.