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About this star
- Category: Recording
- Star rank: 2132
- Address:
1714 Vine St - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing south
- GPS location:
34.102051, -118.326545
Mantovani
Next star: Alfred Newman
Previous star: Frazier Hunt
Biography
Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (Italian pronunciation: [anˈnuntsi̯o ˈpaolo mantoˈvaːni]) (November 15, 1905 – March 29, 1980) known as Mantovani, was an Anglo-Italian conductor and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature. The book British Hit Singles & Albums states that he was “Britain’s most successful album act before The Beatles … the first act to sell over one million stereo albums and had six albums simultaneously in the US Top 30 in 1959”.
Fact file
- Born: November 15, 1905 Venice, Veneto, Italy
- Died: March 29, 1980 (aged 74) Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
- Occupations: Conductor
Read more about Mantovani at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Vine St, east side, between Hollywood and Yucca
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Nearby you will also find Frank Morgan, Frazier Hunt, Alfred Newman, Parkyakarkus, and many others.