Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Poland's Villas, Las Vegas star in 1960s, dies (AP)

The May 30, 2002 photo shows Violetta Villas, a Polish popular singer and a Las Vegas star in the 1960s. Villas, who had a powerful coloratura soprano that spanned four octaves, died late Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 at her home in Lewin Klodzki, southern Poland, at the age of 73. (AP Photo/Piotr Hawalej) POLAND  OUTAP - She was a coloratura soprano who spurned opera for popular music, a Polish singer who became a cabaret star in Las Vegas, an artist trapped for years behind the Iron Curtain when she flew home to tend to her dying mother.


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