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Vikki Carr has won three Grammys and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Latin Grammys in 2008. But she made a conscious decision to severely cut back on performing about six ...
World renowned singer and Rosemead High School alumna Vikki Carr spoke directly to the students following in her footsteps as she stood on the steps of the building now emblazoned with her name.
Vikki Carr emerged at an unlikely time in pop music. A torchy, big-voiced singer who can belt out a ballad or swing with a ferocious sense of rhythm, she became a star in the mid 1960s.
Legendary singer and former San Antonio resident Vikki Carr didn’t listen to rock ’n’ roll while growing up. The only music her father allowed in the house was mariachi and big band.
It was all about God. To draw attention to the fact that WKAP was about to become WHYM, a commercial Christian radio station, WKAP deliberately played Vikki Carr’s 1966 hit “It Must Be Him ...
Vikki Carr, Flex, David Lee Garza, Juanes and Rosario have signed on to perform at the upcoming ninth annual Latin Grammy Awards telecast in Houston. Vikki Carr (born Florencia Bisenta de Casillas ...
Her fans know her as singing star Vikki Carr, but her El Paso relatives know her as Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona. “We never miss watching her when we know she is going to be on ...
SAN ANTONIO — Fifty years ago, Vikki Carr's career was on a trajectory toward a Grammy nomination for best new artist of 1963. She didn't win, losing out to a faceless, now long-forgotten French ...
Instead, a Texan with the stage name "Vikki Carr" sang "America the Beautiful," The Sporting News reports. Beginning with the 1968 Olympics, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was incorporated into ...
Vikki Carr, for 25 years a leading songstress of the Americas, is making a splash in Mexico. The career of the U.S.-born pop singer is going so well south of the border that she`s planning to work ...