Cilla Black
Also known as Priscilla Willis
English singer and media personality (1943–2015)
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Acting · Vauxhall, Liverpool, England, UK
Priscilla Maria Veronica White is best known by her stage name Cilla Black. She rose to fame in the 1960s as a pop singer and her singles "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She hosted her own variety show titled "Cilla" in the 60s and 70s and was an occasional comedy actress. Her career had a massive resurgence in the mid-80s and 1990s were…
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- Burt Bacharach at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2023
- Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2023
- If These Walls Could Sing — Self (archive footage)2022
- Our Cilla: The One and Only — Self (archive footage)2021
- Cilla at the BBC — Self - Performer2015
- Through the Keyhole — Self - Panelist2013
- Produced by George Martin — Self2012
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Priscilla Maria Veronica Willis (née White; 27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), known professionally as Cilla Black, was an English singer, actress and television presenter.
Championed by her friends the Beatles, Black began her career as a singer in 1963. Her singles "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She had eleven top-ten hits on the UK Singles Chart between then and 1971 and an additional eight hits that made the top 40. In May 2010, new research published by BBC Radio 2 showed that her version of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" was the UK's biggest-selling single by a female artist in the 1960s. "You're My World" reached No. 14 in Canada and was also a modest hit in the U.S., peaking at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100.