Connie Francis has died at the age of 87.

Francis’ close friend and president of the musician’s label Concetta Records Rob Roberts, confirmed the news on Facebook early on Thursday, July 17.

“It is with a heavy heart and extreme sadness that I inform you of the passing of my dear friend Connie Francis last night,” he wrote.

“I know that Connie would approve that her fans are among the first to learn of this sad news. More details will follow later,” the message, which was also shared on Francis’ official Facebook profile, concluded.

The news comes two weeks after it was revealed that she’d been hospitalized due to “extreme pain.”

Francis, however, confirmed in a July 4 Facebook post she was “feeling much better after a good night,” two days after it was confirmed that she had been hospitalized.

The musician revealed that she was “back in hospital” on July 2, telling fans she’d been “undergoing tests and checks to determine the cause(s) of the extreme pain I have been experiencing.”

Francis had recently been making headlines due to her 1962 song “Pretty Little Baby” becoming a huge hit on TikTok, 63 years after she recorded the B-side.

Francis, a contemporary of Elivs, was one of the most popular singers of the 1950s and early 1960s, with Top 10 singles like “Who’s Sorry Now?,” “My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own,” “Where the Boys Are” and “Don’t Break The Heart That Loves You.”

According to PEOPLE, Francis was the first woman to have a No. 1 hit on the “Billboard Hot 100″ with her 1960 track “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool.”

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