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
I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.
I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.
I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.
Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.
Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.
Let's love, press your lips to mine. Let's kiss, for that thrill divine.
Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.
But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.
In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. Ive said it over and over again. I think it is boring.
Its just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.
My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.