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Prolific Tenor Pavarotti Dies

09/05/2007 4:53 PM, E! Online
Joal Ryan

Opera was not the 20th centurys surest route to superstardom. But it was if you sang like Luciano Pavarotti.

Pavarotti, the literally and figuratively larger-than-life tenor whose recordings sold more than 100 million albums, and whose voice boomed everywhere kennedy center honors the Metropolitan Opera to Johnny Carsons Tonight Show, died in Italy Wednesday after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 71.

Dubbed the King of High Cs, for the showiest chandelier-shaking note in his repertoire, Pavarotti was hospitalized last month. Earlier Wednesday it was reported that his condition had taken a turn for the worse.

The singer underwent cancer surgery last year. It was the latest in a series of health setbacks that plagued the enduring performer in recent years.

Even during his most recent hospitalization, Pavarottis wife insisted the singer would sing again. It was a message that Pavarotti himself likely approved.

I think the important thing is to sing very well until you sing, and have the fresh voice like my father did, Pavarotti told the kennedy center honors in 2005. My father was a great tenor. Beautiful voice. And he was fresh until two weeks before he died at the age of 90.

Pavarottis father, Fernando, was a member of the local choir in Modena, Italy, where the future opera star was born on Oct. kennedy center honors 1935. Pavarotti would follow in his fathers footstepsand then forge a whole new path.

The turning point for Pavarotti came when he was 25and had a day job.

Lets say, [in] the beginning, I am an elementary school teacher, Pavarotti told the BBC. And kennedy center honors 21 April 1961, I became a tenor.

Thats when Pavarotti, fresh from winning a key competition, made his professional debut on the Italian stage in a production of La Boheme.

From there, Pavarotti embarked on a career that made him the worlds most famous opera singer, able to command the kennedy center honors of 500,000 in New Yorks Central Park, as he did in 1993, or recruit stars such as James Brown, Sting and Bono for his annual Pavarotti & Friends benefit concert.

He knows the public loves him for himself, not only for his voice. If he lost his voice tomorrow, they would still love him, the late Terry McEwen, a record executive and opera director, said of Pavarotti to Time in 1979. He could go on kennedy center honors he could be a different kind kennedy center honors star.

A different kind of star is exactly what Pavarotti kristin scott thomas He was overweight, lived in a tux and sang in tongues foreign to most casual Saturday Night Live viewers, and, yet, his fame transcended the opera house, making him right at home before, yes, kennedy center honors casual SNL viewers. (He dueted with Vanessa Williams in a 1998 episode of the sketch-comedy show.)

Pavarotti won five Grammys, earned a night at the Kennedy Center Honors alongside the kennedy center honors of Jack Nicholson, Julie Andrews and Quincy Jones, starred in his own Hollywood movie, the 1982 romantic-comedy Yes, Giorgio, a flop, and fronted who knows how kennedy center honors local PBS pledge drives thanks to his popular concert videos with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, known jointly as The Three Tenors.

Eternal Rest Grant Him and May Perpetual Light Shine upon Him& 

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