Johnny Mathis
Johnny Mathis
John Royce "Johnny" Mathisis an American singer of popular music and jazz. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts to date. Johnny Mathis has sold well over 350 million records worldwide, according to Guinness Book of World Records writer and charts music historian Paul Gambaccini and other sources. This makes Mathis the third biggest...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth30 September 1935
CountryUnited States of America
Even though he sings the same songs night after night, he never disappoints, ... He always gives 100 percent, and no matter how old he gets, he always sounds like Johnny Mathis.
Little did I know the excesses this life can lead you into. I used to smoke and drink. I gave up cigarettes 35 years ago, drinking six years ago.
I think I had an advantage studying with a female teacher, ... Most people who study with women as opposed to men have a little different concept of the voice. Women help you retrain the soft, high part of your voice.
You have to make sure you don't overdo one thing or the other, especially at a certain age, especially with the voice. You can't beat it to death.
When people talk about Johnny Mathis, it feels like they're talking about someone else, ... I'm so busy I don't have time to think about the fact that I'm famous. I'm just who I am and this is what I do.
We work hard on it (the offense), and being down here gives us a chance to work on it during the day and play at night. The team ran the offense well, and every time we ran the offense right we basically scored.
They're disappointed if you don't do the old songs,
This is what I was brought in here to do, ... I'll do whatever it is the team needs me to do. I just want win.
I had no idea why, but all of a sudden I wanted to sing, ... And I loved it. I didn't have a choice. I just gravitated toward it.
In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger.
Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.