Guy Lombardo
Gaetano Alberto Guy Lombardo was a CanadianAmerican bandleader and violinist of Italian descent.
Lombardo was born in London, Ontario, to Italian immigrants, Gaetano Sr. and Lena Lombardo. His father, who had worked as a tailor, was an amateur singer with a baritone voice and had four of his five sons learn to play instruments so they could accompany him. Lombardo and his brothers formed their first orchestra while still in grammar school and rehearsed in the back of their fathers tailor shop. Lombardo first performed in public with his brother Carmen at a church lawn party in London in 1914. His first recording session took place where trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke made his legendary recordingsin Richmond, Indiana, at the Gennett Studiosboth during early 1924.
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