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
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.
I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.
Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross
And fortunately, I haven't had any problem with my voice. I've been able to sing at a level of consistency that the people are expecting.
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.
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.
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.