Cilla Black is tagged as: 60s, female vocalists, pop, 60s girls, oldies Cilla Black OBE (born Priscilla Maria Veronica White on 27 May, 1943) is an English singer-songwriter and television personality. After a successful recording career, she went on to become the highest paid female presenter in British television history. In September 2009, Black’s 45 years in showbusiness was celebrated by EMI (the record label which launched her career in 1963) with the release of a new music CD/DVD set alongside an album of club remixes (aka Cilla All Mixed Up). Cilla Black was born in Liverpool to a Protestant father and a Catholic mother. As a child she was encouraged to sing by her family. In the early 1960s, determined to break into show business, she got a part-time job as a cloakroom attendant at the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool, where The Beatles regularly played. Ideally placed to promote herself to local musicians, she impressed the Beatles and others with her talent and began her stage career with impromptu performances at the Cavern. She became a guest singer with Merseybeat bands Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes, and later The Big Three. During this period she also worked as a waitress at the Zodiac coffee lounge, where she met her future husband Bobby Willis. Brian Epstein, a former retail manager from a... Read More About Cilla Black Biography...  Send Cilla Black ringtones to your cell
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