Violetta Villas
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Violetta Villas (born Czesława Maria Cieślak, June 10, 1938 – December 5, 2011) was a Belgian-born Polish and international singer, actress, composer and songwriter. Her voice was characterized as coloratura soprano. She could play the piano, violin and trombone. "the singing toast of the continent", "a voice like French champagne", "Polish Yma Sumac". Villas was the first star of the Casino de Paris at Dunes Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas (1966–1971).
Villas was known for her conspicuous, outstanding appearance and numerous number-one hits on her account. During her career in show business Violetta Villas starred in 6 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded almost 300 songs in 10 languages, including Polish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Neapolitan, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. She was an animal rights activist.
In 2011 Villas received the For Merits to Culture - Gloria Artis.
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Discography
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Studio albums
- 1962 Rendez-vous with Violetta Villas
- 1966 Violetta Villas
- 1967 Violetta Villas (reedition)
- 1968 For you my darling
- 1968 About Love...
- 1977 There is no love without jealousy
- 1985 Las Vegas
- 1986 Violetta Villas (reedition)
- 1992 The most beautiful Christmas carols
- 1996 Daddy 2 guest star
- 1997 Christmas carols
- 1997 Villas sings Christmas carols
- 2001 When Jesus Christus was born...
- 2001 Violetta Villas (reedition)
- 2001 There is no love without jealousy (reedition)
- 2001 For you my darling (reedition)
- 2003 Valentine hits
- 2004 Christmas carols from heart
- 2008 To comfort the heart and warmth the soul
- 2009 The most beautiful Christmas carols (reedition)
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Live
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Singles
- 1961 I don't believe you
- 1961 Such a frost
- 1961 I don't make it
- 1961 For you my darling
- 1961 Red Marianna
- 1961 Secret
- 1962 Get married, Johny!
- 1962 Cuckoo clock
- 1962 It speak maracas
- 1962 Look straight into my eyes
- 1962 When Allah goes
- 1962 Ali alo
- 1963 Fan
- 1964 To you, mother
- 1964 Joseph
- 1964 The love begins with a smile
- 1964 There is a time for love
- 1964 Is not
- 1966 To you, mother
- 1978 For mum
- 1986 Mundial'86
- 1987 The pine from my dream
- 1987 Take me from Barcelona
- 1987 Everywhere you go
- 1987 The wild woman
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Flexi discs
- 1962 Do you like to dance?
- 1964 There is a time for love
- 1964 Forty chesnut-trees
- 1964 Recalling Masuria
- 1965 Mamma
- 1965 I will travel to you
- 1965 To you, mother
- 1968 It's raining in Zakopane
- 1970 I returned to you
- 1972 There is no love without jealousy
- 1974 To you, mother
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Compilation albums
- 1980 Old hits
- 1987 The greates hits
- 1992 For you my darling
- 1992 The best of
- 1995 Violetta Villas - gold hits
- 1996 Gold hits
- 1996 Only to you
- 1997 I am what I am
- 1998 Platinum collection
- 2000 Gold hits
- 2003 To you, mother
- 2003 Magic memories
- 2009 From the Polish Radio archive
- 2010 40 Violetta Villas songs
- and 46 VA-type compilations
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Filmography
- Movie
- 1969 How to commit marriage
- 1969 Heaven with a gun
- 1969 Paint your wagon
- 1970 The woodpecker
- 1983 Dream about Violetta
- 1989 Violetta Villas
- Television
- 1963 Revue of the Polskie Nagrania
- 1964 Dancing Joe
- 1965 Roue de la chance
- 1966 Professor Tutka's club
- 1970 Violetta Villas sings
- 1975 The wedding
- 1977 Sentiments
- 1978 Good evening, it's Łódź!
- 1985 Summer Studio
- 1985 Beautiful and excellent
- 1988 Violetta
- 1993 Violetta Villas show - live at Warsaw Operetta
- 1995 Only to You
- 1996 Concert on a barge
- 1999 Violetta V. - live
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Repertoire
- 1. Song festivals - Sopot, Opole, Knokke-Heist, Basel etc. (1961–1964)
- Ave Maria no Morro
- For You My Darling
- Look Straight Into My Eyes
- Si señor
- The Time Will Come
- To You, Mother
- 2 "Roue de la chance", Theatre Fontaine in Paris (1965)
- Ave Maria no Morro
- Look Straight Into my Eyes
- Ave Maria no Morro
- Hiroshima Mon Amour
- Look Straight Into my Eyes
- Non C'est Rien
- Ave Maria no Morro
- C'est si bon
- Dark Eyes
- Et Maintenant
- Gounod's Ave Maria
- Free Again
- Granada
- Hello, Dolly!
- I Will Wait for You
- L'amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle
- Libiamo ne' Lieti Calici
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Ne me quitte pas
- O sole mio
- Somewhere My Love
- Strangers in the night
- Un bel di, vedremo
- Under Paris Skies
- Under the Bridges of Paris
- This Is My Song
- Vissi d'arte
- What Now My Love
- 5. "Villas Revue", Congress Hall in Warsaw (1968)
- Dark Eyes
- Hello, Dolly!
- L'amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle
- Libiamo ne' Lieti Calici
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Strangers in the Night
- This Is My Song
- 6. "Violetta", international concert tour started at Carnegie Hall in New York (1987–1988)
- Arias from Carmen
- Dark Eyes
- Granada
- Happiness (polish - Szczęście)
- If you go away
- Kiss me hotly (polish - Całuj gorąco)
- Mechanical doll (polish - Mechaniczna lalka)
- Strangers in the night
- Summertime
- Violetta
- 7. Now Violetta Villas sings only polish songs
- Bésame Mucho (polish version)
- Całuj gorąco
- Do ciebie mamo
- Ja jestem już taka
- Ja śpiewam piosenki
- Jak w serenadzie
- Mechaniczna lalka
- Miłością znów żyję
- Pocałunek ognia
- Przyjdzie na to czas
- Szczęście
- W Lewinie koło Kudowy
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