Cilla Black Parents: Who Are Priscilla Blythen & John Patrick White

Cilla Black was born Priscilla Maria Veronica White in the Vauxhall district of Liverpool. She is the daughter of Priscilla Blythen and John Patrick White.

She grew up in the Scotland Road area of Vauxhall. Her maternal grandfather, Joseph Henry Blythen was born to Irish parents in the Welsh town of Wrexham; all of Black’s other great-grandparents were also Irish.

Black was raised in a Roman Catholic household.

Black died on August 1, 2015, at the age of 72, after a fall in her villa in Estepona. The day after her funeral, the compilation album, The Very Best of Cilla Black went to Number One on the UK Albums Chart and the New Zealand Albums Chart; it was her first number-one album.