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<a href="/biography/johnny-mathis">John Royce "Johnny"
Mathis</a>, better known as Johnny Mathis is a very popular singer and jazz
musician. One of the biggest selling artist of the 20th century, he
has released a number of hit songs and albums, with his appearance in some TV
roles too. He is known to have performed in wide genre of music like Brazilian
pop, soul music, blues, jazz, country songs as well as some disco songs that
used to be fast and with high beat. He and his friends began their career as
performers in weekend nights in local bars of San Francisco, and he was able to
impress one of the owners of the Black Hawk Club. She arranged his meeting with
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian">George Avakian</a>, who was in Columbia Music, and was so much impressed by Johnny
that he agreed any terms, that would come forward. He asked for a contract
paper from his company to be delivered it to San Francisco and asked for a
blank contract. After signing contracts, he got an apartment in New York City
and also started his first recording that came out in 1957 as Johnny Mathis: A New Sound In Popular Song.
After experimenting on Mathis, he started to change his tone and sang slowly,
which made his songs like” It's Not For Me To Say” and “Wonderful! Wonderful”, a
little more famous.

After recording as well as acting
for MGM’s TV film Lizzie in 1957, he got his second acting role in A Certain
Smile, which had a popular song of the same name. His songs had already made
him famous, whereas the movies came as a booster, as he was soon seen in The Ed Sullivan Show. He was a very
popular artist at that time, often called as "the velvet voice". 1958
was a big year for Johnny one because he started to live in California and two
because his Johnny’s Greatest Hits album came to market. That album made it to
the top of Billboard for almost 9 years, and his name was in the Guinness World Records. A professional
singer/ actor, he is also a top class sports person, who almost made it to the
Olympics Team of 1956 for high jump. He still has not lost his interest in
sports, and plays golf at large. Also, he likes to spend time with his family
and says he loves to “cook”. In 1982, he even published out a book named Cooking
for You Alone.

Born on the September of 1935 in Gilmer,
Texas, United States of America, he is an American by ethnicity and has made a
reputation of himself. His name has already become a legend in itself, with his
fan following and fame spread across the world. A winner of multiple Grammys,
he has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award and is also a member
of the Grammy Hall of Fame. Likewise, he is also in the Great American Songbook
Hall Of Fame and in 2006, won the Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award.
With a net worth value of about 400 million US dollars, he is believed to be
single currently.

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