Frankie Valli
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Frankie Valli (born May 3, 1937 in the Italian First Ward of Newark, New Jersey as Francis Stephen Castelluccio) is best known as lead singer of The Four Seasons, one of the biggest music acts of the 1960s, which continued from then to the 1970s disco scene to the present day.
Valli Scored over 25 top-40 hits with The Four Seasons, a handful of top-40 hits dubbed as a solo act in the late 1960s, one dubbed as The Wonder Who? in 1965, and again in the mid to late 1970s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with The Four Seasons in 1990.
Valli started his singing career in 1952. He cut his first single in 1953 at 16 with The Travellers, as "Frankie Valley & the Travellers", or according to other sources, as a solo career as "Frankie Valley". In the mid-1950s he split up with the Travellers and joined The Variety Trio, which consisted of Tommy DeVito, twin brother Nick, and Hank Majewski. They redubbed themselves "The Four Lovers" and had a top 40 hit with "Apple of My Eye" in 1956. After a few name changes afterwards, the group was renamed "The Four Seasons" in 1960. About the same time, Valli Italianized his name to its current form. Nick DeVito and Majewski left the group in 1960 or 1961 and were replaced by Bob Gaudio and Nick Massi. As the lead singer of the Four Seasons, he had a string of hits beginning with a #1 hit "Sherry" in 1962. Valli has been the lead singer from then until the present time.
External links
frankievalli.com (http://www.frankievalli.com/) fan page