Mario Lanza

About

Born: 31 January 1921, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Died: 07 October 1959, Rome, Italy (aged 38) [b]Lanza[/b] was a classically-trained vocalist, who recorded everything- from operas, to musical comedy and to popular music. [b]Lanza[/b] grew up a handsome and athletic youth, helping out in his family's grocery store in Philadelphia. He gained his appreciation of music as a young boy, listening to his father's recordings of the great operatic singer [a=Enrico Caruso], which he would acc