Una Valli - You made me love you
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Channel: keurspel (Leon Rossouw) · 2015 · Music
Una Valli is a South African artist born in Johannesburg on 29 April 1950. She grew up in Turffontein and attended Forest High School. She was first introduced into show business when she won a talent comptetion at the age of 11. Her real break came when she was discovered by John Walker in 1963, who subsequently invited her to sing on the Springbok Radio show "Stars Of Tomorrow". She went on to become the most powerful soul singer in the country. She appeared with "Brian Poole and the Tremeloes" on their South African tour, and sang with "The Hustlers" and "The Dominoes" before settling in America. She appeared in the "Teenage" supplement to the "Personality" magazine of 30 September 1965, when she was 15. Photos featured in the video are from the magazine. This song is off the album "Teenage Sensation", released in 1964 when she was only 14 years of age. It was written by James V. Monaco and Joseph McCarthy, and first recorded by Al Jolson in 1913.
