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Florencia Bisenta de Casillas-Martinez Cardona (born July 19, 1941), known by her stage name Vikki Carr, is an American vocalist. She has a singing career that spans more than four decades. Born in El Paso, Texas to parents of Mexican ancestry, she has performed in a variety of musical genres, including pop, jazz and country, while her greatest success has come from singing in Spanish. She established the Vikki Carr Scholarship Foundation in 1971. Vikki Carr has won three Grammys and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Latin Grammys in 2008 at the 9th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.
Cosas del Amor was a 1991 album by Vikki Carr that won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Recording. The album produced the hit single, “Cosas del Amor”, written by Rudy Perez & Roberto Livi, which reached No. 1 on the U.S. Latin charts for more than two months. The album also reached No. 1, where it stayed for one month. In the United States, this is her most successful Spanish-language disc.
