23 Facts About Frankie Valli

Frankie Valli is known for his unusually powerful lead falsetto voice.

Frankie Valli's recording of the song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" reached number two in 1967.

Frankie Valli was born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, on May 3,1934, to an Italian family in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey; he was the eldest of three sons.

Frankie Valli's father, Anthony Castelluccio, was a barber and display designer for Lionel model trains; his mother, Mary Rinaldi, was a homemaker and beer company employee.

Frankie Valli was inspired to take up a singing career at the age of seven after his mother took him to see the young Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater in Manhattan, New York City.

Valli never addressed the issue himself, until the 2007 posting at the Official Frankie Valli Site, sponsored by his current record label, Universal Records.

Frankie Valli began his singing career in the early 1950s with the Variety Trio.

Frankie Valli was the original artist to record the Gaudio-Crewe composition "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine ", a performance that was copied nearly note for note when recorded by the Walker Brothers, an American group based in England.

Frankie Valli continued to record solo performances and finally reached major success with the release of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", which reached number two in the charts and was widely recorded by many other artists.

Frankie Valli's debut solo album was a gathering together of various single releases and a few new recordings.

Frankie Valli was in the UK charts, reaching number 11, with this at the same time as the Four Seasons enjoyed a UK hit with "Silver Star" on which Frankie Valli did not appear as lead.

In 1976, Frankie Valli covered the Beatles song "A Day in the Life" for the ephemeral musical documentary All This and World War II.

Frankie Valli had two further chart successes the following year, "Save Me, Save Me" in November 1978, which entered the Billboard Easy Listening chart; and "Fancy Dancer" in January 1979, which entered the pop charts.

Frankie Valli began suffering from otosclerosis in 1967, forcing him to "sing from memory" in the latter part of the 1970s.

The musical dramatizes several real-life incidents from Frankie Valli's life, including his estrangement from daughter Francine, who died in 1980.

In October 2012, Frankie Valli made his Broadway debut with a week-long concert engagement at the Broadway Theatre in New York starting October 19.

In October 2016, Frankie Valli released his first solo album in nine years, 'Tis the Seasons, which features Frankie Valli covering some of his favorite Christmas songs.

In June 2021, Frankie Valli released his twelfth studio album, his first in five years, Touch of Jazz, which features a collection of Jazz cover songs.

Frankie Valli has appeared as an actor in Miami Vice, Full House, the 1998 TV movie Witness to the Mob, The Sopranos, and the 2014 film And So It Goes.

In 2015, Frankie Valli did interviews as himself on the AMC television series The Making of the Mob: New York.

Frankie Valli married his first wife, Mary, who already had a two-year-old daughter, when he was in his early twenties.

Frankie Valli married MaryAnn Hannagan in 1974, and that marriage lasted eight years.

Frankie Valli then married Randy Clohessy in 1984; they had three sons and separated in 2004.