Tenor mario lanza biography wikipedia

Mario Lanza, brilliant young American tenor recently acclaimed by Hedda Hopper in her syndicated column from Hollywood for his "sensational voice - the only one I've heard who could double for Caruso", has signed a contract for exclusive management with Concert Management Arthur Judson, division of Columbia Concerts.

Now only twenty-four years old, Lanza is just out of uniform, having spent almost three years in the army, most of the time touring with the Army Air Forces' all-soldier musical revue "On the Beam" and as a member of the "Winged Victory" company.

In the summer of , just before joining the armed forces, Lanza sang an audition for Arthur Judson who promised the young man that the day he returned to civilian life a contract would be waiting for him.

Simultaneous with joining the roster of Columbia Concerts, Mario Lanza signed a contract with RGA Victor, the first time in the recording company's forty-four-year history it has taken on an artist who has not yet made a p