Famous People with Name Cilla

Cilla Black            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Cilla Black: 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.She can be regarded as the first and only important female performer to emerge from Liverpool in the sixties heyday of the Mersey Sound, kick-started by the global Beatles phenomenon. Priscilla White, as she was then, was discovered by Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager. His management and George Martin's production skills assisted Black to become one of the most successful British pop singers of the period. She became a formidable ballad singer. Her hits lasted longer than those of any Epstein artist, with the obvious exception of the Beatles themselves.