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Cilla Black, singer with a Welsh connection!

CILLA BLACK OBE Singer with a Welsh connection! Very many UK TV appearances. Hosted UK version of Blind Date. Highly successful singer with chart success throughout her early career. Major hit with 'Step inside love'. Priscilla Maria Veronica White was born on the 27th May 1943, raised in a musically oriented household in Liverpool, England with both parents and three brothers. It's said she was often encouraged to practice her innate singing talent by performing to her family. Cilla received a special BAFTA...

Colin Clarke, musician with a Welsh connection!

Colin Clarke His most affluent period was the 1984 to 1985 synth pop revolution during which he scored a number one hit with his synthesised backing track for 'You spin me round (like a record).

Dai Francis, from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales

Dai Francis Star of the highly successful but now totally 'politically incorrect' 'Black and White Minstrels Show' (based at Victoria Palace for many years). His Al Jolson impressions were magnificent. Lots of TV work.

David Bowie was not from Wales.

David Bowie Famous distinctive and influential pop-rock star. Welsh connection or not, we're sad to see him leave us in 2016.