The Extraordinary Nino Rossano
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Singing has been Nino Rossano's life-long career. The tenor
has performed throughout the U.S. and has toured both the
French and Italian Riviera, bringing love songs, some he
composed, to appreciative fans over the world. Nino has
produced seven CDs filled with lyrical, heaven-sent sounds.
They include, "Hidden Treasures, the Italian-American
Experience," "The Best of Nino Rossano," "Italian Eyes," and
"Let's Bring Back Romance," the latter filled with his own
music and words.

When he was growing up in Ribera, Sicily, actor Rossano
Brazzi was his favorite on the screen. So he chose his stage
name "Rossano" because of the actor. On his "Hidden
Treasures" CD, Nino sings “Some Enchanted Evening," a
song that Brazzi lip-synched in the movie “South Pacific”
with such soul felt sounds it is breathtaking.

During his youth, his parents sent him to be a seminary
student at the Collegio Giglio of The Third Order of St.
Francis. Those seminary students study and become ordained
priests that are sent to countries as missionaries. His mother
took him out of the seminary and within a year he came to
the United States. “Had my mother not taken me out, I would
have been a missionary now.”

Because his withdrawal from school was sudden, a problem
arose. He was the main singer in a play the school was
rehearsing when his mother removed him. In order to get
Nino to return for the play, the seminary withheld all his
clothes, promising to return his clothes once he performed.
But although he kept his end of the bargain, his “dowry” was
never returned.

At the seminary, he sang with about 60 boys. One day the
choir was recording a song. Nino was a soprano, and from
the vibrations in his head from singing such high notes, he
passed out. He has a “head voice,” he says. "There are 'chest
singers,' but I'm all head tone. It's all in the mask of the face."

Formal training as an adult changed his natural adult baritone
voice to a tenor. Nino developed polyps in the 1970s, but
with the help of a voice coach, he perfected voice placement,
making his voice the best it had ever been. “Voice is there.
You just have to know how to use it.”

Nino came to the United States as a teenager and
subsequently joined the Army when he volunteered to be
drafted. He said he wanted to spend a couple of years in the
Army after what the U.S. did for him, “hosting me as an
alien.” He is very patriotic and had to give something back.
He sang with a band in the Special Services division in Basic
Training. A band was put together with all the talented
musicians and they played at local Army camps.

Before joining the Army, Nino had applied for citizenship,
and during his tour of duty he was called from Ohio back to
New Jersey for his swearing in. The judge looked at him
wearing a uniform and said that if he was good enough to
wear a uniform, he was good enough to be a citizen, didn’t
ask him the normal questions and granted him citizenship
because he was a serviceman. As a soldier, Nino worked in
the Signal Corps during his Army tour, stationed in Ohio and
Pennsylvania.

Nino can play piano and compose music. His aunt had a baby
grand piano (the only one in Sicily at that time) that he found
as a young boy by going upstairs in her home. He sat down
and started playing. He could play naturally, by ear. Because
he disobeyed and went upstairs when told not to, he “got a
good beating." He said that if his parents had known how
talented he was, his career might have started earlier.

Nino writes many songs, both lyrics and music. He can read
music as well as play piano by ear. He interprets
compositions on the piano, and records on tape, plays it back
and writes down the notes. That’s how he writes.

Italian and opera standards are a specialty, but he really loves
to sing the popular songs. Nino's website receives many
"hits," and he has sold 12,000 songs. Writing is an ongoing
pleasure for Nino, and recently he has finished another 19
for an upcoming album. The singer said he likes to do
anything that has to do with voice and would enjoy doing
"voiceovers."

Twice a winner of a song parody contest hosted by radio jock
Howard Stern, Nino's win took him to Los Angeles and then
London. There were 15 winners, and Stern left Nino’s song
for last, called “Please take me to LA.” Nino remarked, "It
was the only song chosen that had clean lyrics!"

He sings his wondrous repertory of love, in both English and
Italian, at night clubs and for weddings and funerals. When he
got married, Nino said, no one sang, and he “had to sing in
my mind. I must have sung for 400 weddings, but regrettably,
not my own." He’s married to Domenica, which means
"Sunday" in Italian. The couple have five grandchildren.

Listen to Nino Rossano. It is like listening to an angel come
to earth to sing. His music can be purchased online at
CDBaby, iTunes and Amazon.

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