


Source: picture alliance / United Archives / IFTNĬaterina the great, she could let go, knew when the last curtain had to fall, the very last staircase to be taken. Up to her last live show in 1996 in Leipzig, her last record in 2001 and a surprise appearance on Italian television in 2003 as her son's duet partner.Ĭatarina Valente and Thomas Krauss in the film "The Simple Girl" In Germany in particular, they loved Caterina Valente because she - "Ciao Ciao Bambina" - fueled the post-war generation's longing for the south and always took them with them to Italy. Her “Popocatepetl-Twist”, the whole “Paris dreaming of love”, the “Habanero”, the “dream boat of love”, the “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Beach Bikini” including the sun shining for her - that has written hit history and is long history.
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She joked, played, trumpeted and danced through hit films, never skipped a TV show, sang about hundreds of records. “Die Valente”, that is still a star name, which shines with memory to this day. Merriment and happiness were the purpose of Caterina Valente's life, the Italian with a German passport, who has lived in Lugano for decades and who, as the “voice of the boom”, fueled wanderlust in the early Federal Republic.Īnd on time she gave her fans a newly adapted homepage for the anniversary - and a current photo. The mother a famous female music clown, the father an instrumentalist, the artist family constantly on the ball.
