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Cilla Black Autograph. This framed Cilla Black Autograph is backed by our market leading unconditional 90-day returns policy and comes complete with a lifetime COA. Worldwide shipping is available. Available here is a 4×6 Cilla Black Autographed colour promo photo, hand signed in black ink to the bottom right. The photo has been framed in a 7.5×9.5 gold coloured frame with green inlay. Reverse has gold sticker from the company who framed the item (Gryphon, Northumberland, UK).
Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), better known as Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress, and author.
Championed by her friends, the Beatles, Black began her career as a singer in 1963. Her singles “Anyone Who Had a Heart” and “You’re My World” both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She had 11 top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart between then and 1971, and an additional eight hits that made the top 40. In May 2010, new research published by BBC Radio 2 showed that her version of “Anyone Who Had a Heart” was the UK’s biggest-selling single by a female artist in the 1960’s. “You’re My World” was also a modest hit in the U.S., peaking at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Along with a successful recording career in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, Black hosted her own BBC variety show, Cilla (1968–1976). After a brief time as a comedy actress in the mid-1970’s, she became a prominent television presenter in the 1980’s and 1990’s, hosting hit entertainment shows such as Blind Date (1985–2003), The Moment of Truth (1998–2001), and Surprise Surprise (1984–2001). In 2013, Black celebrated 50 years in show business. ITV honoured this milestone with a one-off entertainment special which aired on 16 October 2013, The One & Only Cilla Black, featuring Black herself and hosted by Paul O’Grady.
Black died in August 2015 at the age of 72, after a fall in her villa in Estepona. The day after her funeral, the compilation album The Very Best of Cilla Black went to number one on the UK Albums Chart and the New Zealand Albums Chart; it was her first number one album.