Caterina Valente, Edmundo Ros, Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra - Nothing But Aces (1968)

Caterina Germaine Maria Valente:
Italian (naturalized French) singer, guitarist, dancer and actress.
Born 14 January 1931 in Paris, France; died September 9, 2024 in Lugano, Switzerland.
Sister of Silvio Francesco. She was married to Eric van Aro from 1952 to 1971 and Roy Budd from 1972 to 1979. Eric van Aro is her son from her first marriage.
Her father Giuseppe Valente was an accordionist while her mother Maria was a virtuoso musician (she played 33 instruments) and ballet dancer in Vaudeville.
Active as a recording artist from 1954 to 2001. She retired from show business in 2003.

Edmundo William Ros:
Trinidadian-Venezuelan orchestra conductor, born December 7, 1910 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, died October 21, 2011 in Alicante, Spain
The family moved to Caracas, Venezuela. His musical career started in the army, then he became the tympanist in the Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. He moved to London in 1937 to continue classical studies, but popular music was to become his career. He played drums in the Fats Waller recordings, played percussion and sang in Don Marino Barreto's Cuban band and formed his five-piece Rumba Band in 1940, and the rest is history.
Edmundo's Rumba Band with strange rhythms was a smash hit in London, although the Nazi bomb almost hit the club. His first recording for Parlophone was Record of the Month in June 1941 (Harlequin HQ CD 15). The contract with the famed Bagatelle Restaurant opened the doors for Ros to high society. All the leaders of Allied Countries and the Royal Family came there to dine and listen to his Rumba Band. In 1951 he bought the famous Coconut Grove and named it "Edmundo Ros Dinner and Supper Club". Only those mentioned in "Who's Who" were allowed in the club. The Club was world famous and the BBC had regular raio broadcasts there. In the late 1950's Ros got a smart idea of recording Broadway musical melodies arranged to different Latin rhythms: the mambo, cha cha cha, rumba, samba, baion, bolero, valse creole, meringe, guaracha, and the conga. He also made a series of TV shows for the US and European markets. The 1960's was the the peak of his popularity and commercial success.
He retired in 1975 and has lived with his wife Susan in Alicante, Spain since then. In 1994 Edmundo conducted and sang with the BBC Big Band with Strings at The Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. The other conductor was Stanley Black. The concert was broadcast over BBC Radio 2 and it was such a success that a Japanese recording company invited them into a recording studio in London to make yet another CD.