Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero was born on the 12th December 1938, in Newark, New Jersey USA, and as Connie Francis is a singer who was very popular in the late 1950s and 1960s, and released many hit songs including “Who’s Sorry Now?” (1958), “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” (1960) and “Where The Boys Are” (1961). Francis has been active in the entertainment industry since the 1940s.
How much is the net worth of Connie Francis? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the singer’s wealth is over $25 million, as of the data presented in the early 2017. Singing is the main source of Francis’ fortune.
Connie Francis Net Worth $25 Million
To begin with, Francis was schooled at Newark Arts and Belleville High Schools, but came in contact with music very early. At the age of ten, she appeared in the USA television show “Star Time” (1948), in which young talents had the chance to prove themselves. She first performed playing the accordion, yet soon continued with just singing. In the above mentioned show, she gained more accessible and short stage name.
Concerning her professional career, Francis adopted her stage name at this time, and began recording singles in 1955. However, by and large everything she released flopped, until her breakthrough in 1957, when she released the single “Who’s Sorry No”. Over the next decade the song was followed by many more hits, making Connie Francis one of the most popular singers in the world. She is often recognised by specific weeping in the style of slow songs as “My Happiness” (1958), “I’m Sorry I Made You Cry” (1959) and “Among My Souvenirs” (1959). The well known songs “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” (1960) and “My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own” (1960) took first place on the Billboard charts.
Francis sang songs in nine languages, most of them were performed in English and Italian, although she sang in French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Yiddish and Hebrew, releasing several albums in Italian, Spanish and Hebrew. Connie Francis also had a hugely successful career in Germany; her first German recording, “Die Liebe ist ein Seltsames Spiel” (Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool) topped the German sales charts in 1960, and she came to have two more number ones in Germany, “Paradiso” (1962) and “Barcarole in der Nacht” (1963).
During the Vietnam War Connie Francis performed many times for military audiences, but then in 1969, Francis left music, only to return in 1973. Connie Francis always liked country music, and she experienced a minor success with the song “The Wedding Cake” (1982), adding her name on the country charts. In 1996, she released the tribute album to Buddy Holly entitled “With Love to Buddy” which is her last studio album, so far.
In addition, Francis’ autobiography “Who’s Sorry Now?” was released in 1984.
Finally, in the personal life of the singer, Francis has had four marriages, firstly in the ‘60s to Dick Kanellis, yet they divorced after three months. In 1971, Francis married for the second time, to Izzy Marrion, and again divorced within a year. In 1973, she married Joseph Garzillin, and the pair adopted a son, but the union ended in divorce in 1978. In 1985, she married then divorced Bob Parkinson. The singer has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
