If you are going to sing from the Sinatra songbook you had better be good

November 10, 2017

“I was raised around big band and jazz. My mother’s favorite singer was Al Jolson and I listened to him when I was little. I took up the saxophone when I was 10 and had my own band when I was 16. After high school I played with a few big bands. I had an uncle who is a jazz fanatic and taught me everything. I always loved Sinatra and saw him sing several times. I sing in the same key. I practice 2 to 5 hours a day and do a lot of his older stuff. I like the old love songs by George Gershwin and Nat King Cole. I do Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis and Neil Diamond. I can do 10 to 12 singers. If the show is straight Sinatra, it is A Tribute to Sinatra, the Man and His Music. If there are different singers, it is A Tribute to Sinatra and friends. We live close to Reno and I perform there and do dinner-dance shows. It helps keep Sinatra’s music alive and introduce it to younger generations. I do weddings with my wife, she will marry them and I will sing to them. I have been doing this for 40 years. If you are going to sing from the Sinatra songbook, you better be good. It is as simple as that. I had rectal cancer and was cured in the first six weeks. We told the doctor I would be healed because I had faith in God that He would do what He promised. The doctor used the word miracle and he was shocked. I don’t know how people live through sickness and tragedy without the Lord. We can’t do this alone.”

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