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Connie Francis MGM LP record, 1961
Connie Francis (born December 12, 1938) is an American singer and one of the best-selling female singers of all time. After an appearance on Startime, Francis was advised to change her name from Concetta Rosemarie Franconero to something more easily pronounceable, as well as to quit the accordion and focus on singing.
Francis' first single Freddy (1955) was a failure and she began considering a career in medicine. However, Who's Sorry Now launched her into super-stardom worldwide . This was followed by Don't Break the Heart That Loves You, Everybody's Somebody's Fool, Stupid Cupid, In the Summer of his Years (written after the assassination of John F. Kennedy), Strangers in the Night and Where the Boys Are (from the movie of the same name), which became one of the first pop songs to be recorded in foreign languages.
Francis ended her recording career 1969, returning in 1973 with The Answer, a song written just for her, and soon began performing again. Tragedies followed soon after. She was raped in a hotel, surgery robbed her of her voice and her brother was murdered in 1981. Francis was diagnosed as manic depressive but resumed her career in 1989 and has continued singing and recording since then.
"Connie Francis" is also a character in Victory Gundam, one of the five (of the six) original members of the Shrike Team who are named in homage to 20th century female singers.
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