My friend Tino Valdi, who has died aged 90, was a singer and member of Bruce Forsyth’s variety touring show in the late 1950s and once shared the bill with Max Miller. Known as “a new voice from Italy”, he appeared on many radio and television programmes throughout the 60s and 70s, as well as in concert halls at home and abroad. Heperformed on two transatlantic liners, the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary, and recorded six albums.Tino was born Volodymyr Luciw in Nadvirna in Ukraine to Gabriel, a butcher, and his wife, Yulia. When he was a teenager during the …read more
Source:: The Guardian
