5/10/2021 0 Comments Malaguena Katrina Valenti
In 1955 Gordon MacRae presented her on the Colgate Comedy Hour as the Malaguena Girl.Las Vegas critics raved about the extraordinary talent of the young European vocalist who could sing in 12 languages and she soon found the spotlight on TV, at the Hollywood Palace and Dean Martin was so impressed he invited her on his TV show at least a dozen times.Danny Kaye, Perry Como and Bing Crosby often featured her as well, along with other TV hosts.In The Entertainers aired in 196465 she shared the bill with Carol Burnett, Dom DeLuise and Bob Newhart and was awarded the FAME Award as best vocalist on American television.
Malaguena Katrina Valenti Series Of ValenteFrom the mid fifties to the eighties German, Italian, Swiss and Austrian Television produced more than a dozen series of Valente-Shows and her guest spots over the globe are uncountable. Among others, she has performed with Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, toured extensively in concert with Woody Herman, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Buddy Rich and has recorded with Sy Oliver, Claus Ogerman and Chet Baker just to name a few. Born in Paris (January 14th 1931) of Italian parents, once married to a German then to an Englishman, Caterina Valente easily related to fans wherever she performed, particularly in Europe. In Italy romantic ballads like Nessuno al mondo and Till brought her gold records. The Grand Prix du Disque was her award in France for Bimbombey and she topped the charts in the US and the UK with the before mentioned Malaguena and The Breeze and I. She starred in 12 European movie-musicals; she dances (less exuberantly since undergoing two major hip operations); and is a virtuoso on the guitar, having strummed the instrument in an orchestra when only a teen-ager. Major awards from Italy, Germany (2 crosses of merit), France (officer of artistic education), Brazil, Japan as well as the USA (including a best female vocalist Grammy nomination) document her artistic and civil achievements throughout the years. But she considers the 18 concerts sharing the stage of the Olympia in Paris with Michel Legrand in 1972 as well as the album Valente 86 with the Count Basie Orchestra and relative 1986 European Tour under the direction of, and with arrangements by Thad Jones, to be her artistic highlights. ![]() Girltalk her latest album of newly recorded material with harpist Catherine Michel was released to international critical acclaim in 2001. They made many records together, and he was a frequent guest and musical director in her stage as well as TV-shows. She is considered a true world citizen and a polyglot speaking 6 languages fluently and having recorded and released more than 1350 songs in 12 different languages. She was a frequent guest on TV shows in the 1960s and 1970s, especially on The Dean Martin Show (1965).
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