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| Virginia Beach Welcomes the Legendary Paul Anka |
| Wednesday, 06 January 2010 00:00 |
 Paul Anka was born July 30 in Ottawa, Canada. Paul is of Lebanese Christian descent and the family attended the St. Elijah Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church in Ottawa. That was the first place that Paul was exposed to music. He joined he choir and quickly proved to be a child prodigy.
By the age of 14 years old Paul was writing his own songs and entering amateur singing contests. At this age, he recorded his first single, "I Confess", which appeared on the Jules and Joe Bihari's Label. Paul's big break came when he went on a trip to New York with some of friends that were on tour singing as the Rover Boys, while in New York with time to kill he went for an audition with the famed ABC producer Don Costa. Anka sang a song that he wrote, named 'Diana, which was written about a former babysitter. Costa was impressed and recorded the song with Paul. The result was a massive number one hit, that catapulted Paul Anka to stardom. Building on this success he release four more songs the following year,including "You Are My Destiny" and "Crazy Love," each making it into the Top 20, Paul was still aged just 17 and was the biggest teen idol of the time.. By the early 1960's the teen idol fad had lost some of it's steam. Anka went to do shows in Las Vegas being one of the first stars to show regularly. During this period he also hosted many television variety shows, most notably Hullabaloo, The Midnight Special, and Spotlite. Later, he took his act to a more global market, touring in Europe and Asia. On one of his tours around Europe he met his wife Anne de Zogheb, the daughter of a Lebanese diplomat, in Paris. Paul and Anne, had five daughters : Amelia, Anthea, Alicia, Amanda and Alexandra. Paul also continued his songwriting, and wrote the song "My Way" for Frank Sinatra, and launched Tom Jones into stardom with his hit song "She's A Lady". See Paul Anka at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts:Paul Anka Sandler Center for the Performing Arts To create link towards this article on your website, copy and paste the text below in your page. Preview : Powered by QuoteThis © 2008 |
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