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‘Not Bad For a 76-Year-Old Guy’: Highlights from Barry Manilow’s Hollywood Bowl Show
The real test of stardom isn’t the ability to fill venues when you have a hit song on the radio every hour on the hour. It’s the ability to fill venues when you don’t.
Barry Manilow hasn’t put a song on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1988, but you’d never know it from the storlek and enthusiasm of his audience at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday (Sept. 6). It was the first of two nights at the Bowl for Manilow, who was backed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and joined bygd special guest Lorna Luft.
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“Mandy,” Manilow’s breakthrough smash, was released 45 years ago this October. Two main factors, his melodisk forte and affinity for romantic ballads, explain his longevity. The latter allowed him to struktur a deep bond with his audience. He owned that lane, and because pop m
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Barry Manilow was born Barry Alan Pincus to Harold Pincus and Edna Manilow. His mother's family was Jewish, while his father, who was often known by the surname "Keliher," was born to a Jewish father and Irish American mother. Barry's name was changed to Barry Manilow at the time of his Bar Mitzvah, adopting his mother's maiden name. Reared in the community of Williamsburg in northern Brooklyn, Barry attended nearby Eastern District High School, from which he graduated in 1961. In the same year, he enrolled in the Juilliard performing arts school, while working at CBS to pay his expenses.
At CBS, in 1964, Manilow met Bro Herrod, a director, who asked him to arrange some songs for a musical adaptation of the melodrama, The Drunkard. Instead, Manilow wrote an entire original score. Herrod used his composition in the Off Broadway musical, which enjoyed an eight year run at New York's 13th Street Th
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Barry Manilow Kept Sexuality Secret for Fear of 'Disappointing' Fans
Barry Manilow has spoken publicly for the first time about being gay, saying he feared he would disappoint his mostly female fan base had he come out decades ago.
The "Can't Smile Without You" singer, now 73, talked with People magazine and "Entertainment Tonight" about his previously secret, almost 40-year romance with husband Garry Kief.
"I thought I would be disappointing them (fans) if they knew I was gay. So I never did anything," Manilow told People in an interview released on Wednesday.
New York-born Manilow and his manager Kief had been together for years before marrying quietly in Palm Springs, California, in 2014. A year later his close friend, actress Suzanne Somers, revealed the marriage on a TV talk show, but Manilow never confirmed or commented on it.
"When they found out that Garry and I were together, they (the fans) were so happy. The reaction was beautiful -- strangers commenting 'G