Age |
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86 years |
Birth date |
December 12, 1938 |
Zodiac sign |
Sagittarius |
Place of Birth |
United States |
Occupation |
Singer |
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Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero; December 12, 1938) is an American pop singer, former actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw. Despite several severe interruptions in her career, she is still active as a recording and performing artist.
Francis was born to an Italian-American family in the Italian Down Neck, or Ironbound, neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, the first child of George Franconero, Sr., and Ida Franconero (née Ferrari-di Vito), spending her first years in a Brooklyn neighborhood on Utica Avenue/St. Marks Avenue before the family moved to New Jersey.
Growing up in an Italian-Jewish neighborhood, Francis became fluent in Yiddish, which would lead her later to record songs in Yiddish and Hebrew.
In her autobiography Who's Sorry Now? published in 1984, Francis recalls that she was encouraged by her father to appear regularly at talent contests, pageants, and other neighborhood festivities from the age of four as a singer and accordion player.
Height | 5 ft 1 in / 156 cm |
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Weight | 110 lb / 50 kg |
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Breast/Bust size | 33 in / 86 cm |
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Waist size | 25 in / 65 cm |
Hips size | 35 in / 89 cm |
Bra size | 38B (US) / 85B (EU) |
Cup size | B (US) |
Dress Size | – |
Shoe (Feet) Size | 5.5 US |
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Hair Color | Black |
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Eye Color | Dark brown |
Nationality | American |
Race / ethnicity | White |