Vicki Carr has been a star in the Latin music world now for over 25 years. He has been nominated for five Grammys since 1986, winning five of them. She has done a wealth of humanitarian work especially in behalf of Hispanic students, where her Vicki Carr Scholarship Foundation has awarded more than 280 scholarships totaling over a quarter of a million dollars. What many have forgotten was her start as a easy listening pop star.
Carr was born Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona in El Paso TX in 1941. Her first recording success was in 1962 as she recorded the song, "She's A Rebel", which went top 5 in Australia. She gained more exposure from being a regular on TV's Ray Anthony Show. The singles for the next few years all flopped, and the several albums had spotty success. However the 1966 album, "It Must Be Him" was nominated for 3 Grammy's on the strength of the title track which reached #3 on the charts.
She had moderate success on the pop charts over the next several years, although doing well in the Adult Contemporary field scoring 7 top twenty songs through 1972. In 1980, she began a series of Latin albums sung entirely in Spanish (she had recorded many of her hits in Spanish much earlier). She broke through in to that market several years later, and continues to tour and record to this day.
Carr was born Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona in El Paso TX in 1941. Her first recording success was in 1962 as she recorded the song, "She's A Rebel", which went top 5 in Australia. She gained more exposure from being a regular on TV's Ray Anthony Show. The singles for the next few years all flopped, and the several albums had spotty success. However the 1966 album, "It Must Be Him" was nominated for 3 Grammy's on the strength of the title track which reached #3 on the charts.
She had moderate success on the pop charts over the next several years, although doing well in the Adult Contemporary field scoring 7 top twenty songs through 1972. In 1980, she began a series of Latin albums sung entirely in Spanish (she had recorded many of her hits in Spanish much earlier). She broke through in to that market several years later, and continues to tour and record to this day.
