Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis was born on Sep 30, 1935 in USA. Johnny Mathis's big-screen debut came with Lizzie directed by Hugo Haas in 1957, strarring Piano Singer. Johnny Mathis is known for Oh Madeline directed by J.D. Lobue, Madeline Kahn stars as Madeline Wayne and James Sloyan as Charlie Wayne. Johnny Mathis has got 2 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Johnny Mathis achieved is Grammy Awards. The upcoming new movie Johnny Mathis plays is Just Getting Started which will be released on Dec 08, 2017.

He was the fourth of seven children born to Clement and Mildred Mathis. His father performed briefly in vaudeville and exposed all of the Mathis siblings to music. Before he entered his teens, young John received vocal lessons from Connie Cox in exchange for performing chores around her home. When he entered San Francisco State College he originally had planned to become a physical education instructor. At San Francisco State he broke classmate and basketball great Bill Russell's high jump record. While in college he began performing at a small local bar called The International Settlement, where he met performers Maya Angelou and Joan Weldon. Later performances at a club called The Blackhawk caught the attention of Columbia Records producer George Avakian. When Avakian called for Mathis to make his first recording, the young singer and then college track star had to make a unique decision: whether to record or to tryout for the 1956 Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. He chose to make his first single "Wonderful, Wonderful". To date he has recorded over 80 albums selling millions of albums worldwide More than 60 of his albums have been certified gold and/or platinum. "Heavenly" alone remained on the pop charts for 295 weeks. His 1958 album "Johnny's Greatest Hits" began "Greatest Hits" tradition copied by every record company since then. This album spent an unprecedented 490 continuous weeks (almost ten years) on the Billboard Top Albums Chart, and garnered notation in the Guinness Book Of World Records. For over 6 decades Mathis has continued to record, musically evolve, and perform at the world's most prestigious venues, earning a permanent place in American music history.