Includes fresh insights from Johnny Mathis as well as his producers and arrangers and traces Mathis’s musical journey from the past to the present. Few singers have been able to change with the times ...
Johnny Mathis earned the honorific "the Voice of Romance" for a reason. For more than 60 years, he’s applied his classic croon — warm, rich and velvety — to a succession of love songs and slow jams.
At 86, singer Johnny Mathis would be within his rights to put down the microphone and call it quits. The much-loved vocalist first bewitched listeners in the 1950s with his chart-topping, ...
The mesmerizing Mathis was surrounded by a cheering audience (it’s a huge theatre-in-the-round) and surrounded by their love. It was clear from the recognition applause and sighing that greeted the ...
Everyone knows his ready-for-Valentine’s Day ballads, his Christmas albums and other elements from his illustrious music career. But not everybody knows his sports background. Here’s a primer on both ...
“His voice is still wonderful, and it’s a shame that he won’t be able to share that with his audiences after May 18,” Scott ...
There's a classic scene in "Diner," an early '80s buddy picture set in 1959, where two friends are debating the merits of Frank Sinatra vs. Johnny Mathis in a diner booth. Steve Guttenberg's character ...
Johnny Mathis is retiring from live performing. On Wednesday, March 26, Mathis’ Facebook account announced that the 89-year-old crooner will stop performing live, due to “age and memory issues, which ...
BILOXI, Mississippi -- It was 67 years ago Johnny Mathis received the phone call that would change his life -- and the course of popular music history -- forever. A 19-year-old track & field star at ...