Johnny Mathis
Johnny Mathis, the Grammy Hall of Fame and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award legendary singer, treated his adoring fans at Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts with his annual holiday concert.
The 89-year-old superstar still has maintained his remarkable, powerful tenor voice with the unmatched vibrato.
Mathis, with a career spanning 68 years, brought all of his adoring fans back in time, while singing all of his greatest hits, and classic Christmas tunes. As usual, his charisma oozed into the audience.
He has spent his entire lifetime dedicated to keeping his voice finely-tuned, and there is no sign of him slowing down.
Thanks to Columbia Records for discovering him and signing him to a record contract at the age of 19, he would become the longest-running recording artist in their stable of singers, many of his albums reaching gold and platinum status, and selling 350 million records worldwide.
Seventy Three of his albums found their way to the Billboard top album charts.
Mathis is also a trailblazer. His album, "Johnny's Greatest Hits" (1958) was the first of its kind and would spawn other artists to carry on that tradition of greatest hit albums.
He had a quality orchestra backing him up.
He started the concert singing "Winter Wonderland," and the audience were so feeling the spirit of the song, many shouted out to Mathis that they loved him. Other Christmas song favorites he sang were "Sending You a Little Christmas," "Toyland," and "It's Beginning To Look A Lot like Christmas."
Some other big hits he sang were his anthems, "It's Not For Me To Say," "Chances Are," "Wonderful! Wonderful!," "Misty," "99 Miles From LA," and my personal favorite "The Twelfth of Never."
Every song he sings turns to gold.
Mathis is one of those rare and talented individuals that continues to have the love and passion for his art after all these years in the music business.
Everybody left the theater feeling "wonderful" in a "winter wonderland."
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