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Violetta Villas
Polish cabaret artist, actress, singer & songwriter
Poland • 1938-06-10 – 2011-12-05
Violetta Villas is credited on 58 releases across 20 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2018 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
58
Pressings credited
20
Albums
6
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Czesława Maria Gospodarek (née Cieślak; 10 June 1938 – 5 December 2011), known by her stage name Violetta Villas, was a Polish and international cabaret star, singer, actress, composer and songwriter. Her voice was characterized as coloratura soprano, which spanned over four octaves. She could play the piano, violin, and trombone and had absolute pitch. Characterisations of her included "the voice of the atomic age", "the singing toast of the continent", "a voice like French champagne", and the "Polish Yma Sumac". Villas was the first star of the Casino de Paris at Dunes Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas (1966–1970). Villas was known for her conspicuous wardrobe and number-one hits. During her show business career, Villas acted in six films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded almost three hundred songs in ten languages, including Polish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Neapolitan, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. In 2011, Villas received the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.
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Credited work
58 releases · 20 albums · active 1961–2018
- Performance · 85
- Other credits · 28
Studios: Operetka House, Warsaw
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Kult (2)
- Władysław Szpilman
- Agnieszka Osiecka
- Janusz Radek
- Jerzy Michotek
- Irena Santor
- Orkiestra Polskiego Radia
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