![]() In 1953, she made her first recordings with Kurt Edelhagen. Their son is the singer Eric van Aro, Jr. He recognized her talent and accompanied her in her initial years of worldwide success, although they later divorced. In 1952, she married the juggler Erik van Aro (Gerd Eric Horst Scholz). ![]() She had three siblings, one of whom, Silvio Francesco, was also active in show business. Her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown. She was born into an Italian artist family. She is also the mother of singer Eric van Aro, Jr.Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931, Paris) is an Italian singer, dancer, and actress. In 2001, she released a new album Girltalk with harpist Catherine Michel. In 1986, her 50th anniversary in showbusiness was celebrated with a televised tribute entitled Bravo Caterina, and the Guiness Book of World Records recognized her as Europe’s most successful female recording artist, with over 1350 albums to her credit. 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. ![]() 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. 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. Valente is a true world citizen and a polyglot, having sung in twelve different languages. In 1959 she was nominated for a Grammy Award. 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. In 1972, she married the British pianist Roy Budd they had a son, Alexander, but they divorced in 1979.įrom 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. Between 19 she was a frequent guest on the Dean Martin Show. ![]() In the mid-1960s, Caterina worked with the legendary Claus Ogerman and recorded material in both Italian and English that he arranged/conducted and/or composed on the Decca and London labels. In 1955 she was featured on the "Colgate Comedy Hour" with Gordon MacRae. ![]()
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