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Caterina Valente

1931 - 2024

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Caterina Germaine Maria Valente (14 January 1931 – 9 September 2024) was an Italian-French multilingual singer, guitarist, and dancer. She spoke six languages and sang in 13. While she was best known as a performer in Europe, Valente spent part of her career in the United States, where she performed alongside Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Caterina Valente is the 175th most popular singer (up from 212th in 2019), the 1,008th most popular biography from France (up from 1,299th in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Singer.

Caterina Valente is most famous for her song "Torna a Sorriento" which was released in 1956.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Caterina Valente ranks 175 out of 4,381. Before her are Tony Bennett, Barbara Strozzi, Lisa Marie Presley, Ofra Haza, Sofia Rotaru, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. After her are Annie Lennox, Dua Lipa, Renata Tebaldi, Roberta Flack, Boris Christoff, and Drake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Caterina Valente ranks 57. Before her are Kakuichi Mimura, William Shatner, Viktor Korchnoi, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Hamilton O. Smith, and Michael Lonsdale. After her are Takashi Takabayashi, Jim Jones, Richard Rorty, Hiroto Muraoka, John Robert Schrieffer, and Faten Hamama. Among people deceased in 2024, Caterina Valente ranks 59. Before her are Shelley Duvall, Kris Kristofferson, Gena Rowlands, Johan Galtung, Luigi Riva, and Yahya Sinwar. After her are Juan Vicente Pérez, Ebrahim Raisi, Philip Zimbardo, Maurizio Pollini, Andreas Brehme, and Susan Wojcicki.

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In France

Among people born in France, Caterina Valente ranks 1,008 out of 6,770. Before her are Bernart de Ventadorn (1135), Fromental Halévy (1799), Eugène Scribe (1791), Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (1292), Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1725), and Jacques Perrin (1941). After her are Lili Boulanger (1893), Gabriel Lamé (1795), Maurice Halbwachs (1877), Chilperic I (539), Philippe de Vitry (1291), and Roger Etchegaray (1922).

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Among SINGERS In France

Among singers born in France, Caterina Valente ranks 14. Before her are Johnny Hallyday (1943), Gilbert Bécaud (1927), Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974), Georges Brassens (1921), Maria Malibran (1808), and Manu Chao (1961). After her are Desireless (1952), Charles Trenet (1913), Jacqueline Boyer (1941), Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737), André Claveau (1911), and Warda Al-Jazairia (1939).

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