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Barry Manilow
Linking the crooning style of old school singers like Frank Sinatra and Bing
Crosby with a modern approach to popular music, Barry Manilow has proved himself
one of the most durable entertainers of his generation. From an Irish and Jewish
family, he was raised in Brooklyn and studied at New York's famous Juilliard
School of performing arts, while working part-time at CBS Records. In 1964 he
wrote an original score for an off-Broadway adaptation of the melodrama 'The
Drunkard', which ran for eight years, and also became a successful
writer/performer of TV commercial jingles.
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