Petula Clark Tickets

About Petula Clark

First Steps to Fame

Her father, a big joker, wishing to honor two of his former girlfriends by combining their names into a single unit (Pet and Ulla), invented her name Petula. From early childhood, Petula sang in the church choir, and at 9, performed in public as a solo artist for the first time. In 1942, Petula first performed on the radio, singing a song “Mighty Lak A Rose”. BBC producers liked her so much that they invited her to a long-term cooperation.

Cinema and television

In 1944, she started to act in films. Since 1946, Petula began to appear on television. A talented girl was liked very much, so she performed a number of small roles in British films of B category. In 1950, Clark worked a lot on television, and by mid-decade, actively took up a musical career, signing a contract with the recording studio Pye Records, which she worked with for a couple of decades.

Real Fame

But the real fame came to Petula in 1958 after the concert in the Parisian concert hall Olympia. Immediately after this, the company Vogue Records offered the singer a tempting contract, which was difficult to refuse from. On the same day, Petula met a publicist Claude Wolff, whom she married in 1961.

Conquering Britain

France had already been conquered, but in England, Petula did not gain so much attention. Everything changed in 1961, when one by one the British charts were blew up with the songs “Sailor”, “Romeo”, “My Friend The Sea”, “Ya Ya Twist”, and “Chariot”. Thanks to them, Petula became widely known at home. Her latest album appeared in 2013.