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Barry Manilow Wiki Biography

Barry Alan Pincus was born on 17 June 1943, in Brooklyn, New York USA of Jweish and Irish-American descent, and as Barry Manilow – his mother’s maiden name – is known as a singer, record producer, musician, film score composer, as well as an actor. Barry Manilow is perhaps best known for his hit singles including  “Copacabana (At the Copa)”, “Can’t Smile Without You” and “Mandy”.

So just how rich is Barry Manilow? Sources estimate that Barry Manilow’s net worth is $80 million, accumulated during his lengthy multi-talented career in the music industry, beginning in the mid-60s.

Barry Manilow studied at the Eastern District High School. then in 1961 enrolled in the Juilliard Performing Arts School, while working at CBS to pay his expenses, prior to his professional singing career, then meeting a CBS director who gave him an offer to create several songs for a musical. Manilow’s compositions enjoyed large success and he then decided to pursue a career in composing. Manilow worked as a producer, musical director, as well as a jingle writer.

Barry Manilow initial talent was shown as a pianist and arranger, and he was given a break by Bette Midler, assisting her in several songs and performances, before releasing his debut single “Mandy” in 1971 that peaked at #12 on the UK Singles Chart and resulted in many versions of the song being covered by other artists. In 1972, Barry Manilow released his self-titled debut album, which was then re-released in 1975 and renamed to “Barry Manilow I”. The remastered version peaked at #28 on the Billboard 200 chart, while the single “Could It Be Magic” reached #6. Another single that came to be successful from the same album was “Can’t Smile Without You”. The song too was re-released and was even featured on the soundtracks of such movies as “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” with Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler and Eddie Griffin, “Unconditional Love” with Kathy Bates, and “Starsky and Hutch” with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. All these projects resulted in a solid start to his net worth.

“Copacabana” was released in 1978 as a hit single of Manilow’s 5th studio album “Even Now”, which reached the certification of triple platinum. The song peaked at #8 on the Billboard chart and reached #22 on the UK Singles Chart. “Copacabana” was then remixed, re-released and even recorded in Spanish language due to its large commercial success. Again, these produced a significant addition to his net worth. So popular had Barry Manilow become that in that year 1978, five of his albums were on the US best-seller charts simultaneously.

Barry Manilow continued to produce albums over the years, and so far has released 29 studio albums, 15 compilation albums and four soundtrack albums. In 2006, following the success of his many other albums, Manilow released “The Greatest Songs of the Fifties”, which turned out to be an incredible hit in the US, as it peaked at #1 and sold over 150,000 copies during its first week.

Manilow has also made several on-screen appearances, including the “Tonight Show”, a variety show called “Donny & Marie”, “Ally McBeal”, “Family Guy”, and more recently “An Audience With…” and “The Diane Rehm Show” with Diane Rehm. Barry Manilow’s contributions to the music industry have been rewarded with two Emmys, a Grammy for “Copacabana”, “American Music Awards” and the RIAA award.

In his personal life, Barry Maniow was briefly married to Susan Deixler in the early 60s. In 2014, he married his long-time manager and partner Gary Kief.

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Barry Manilow Quick Info

Barry Manilow Quotes

• [2012] Well, I smoked for 30 years. I started when I was nine years old. I grew up in Brooklyn. And then I stopped about 15, 20 years ago. Then I just started in Vegas and the band and I went down to a little club, and somebody offered me a cigarette. And I was back. Within a week I was back. Not on a pack a day; ’cause when I was really smoking I was on three packs a day – non-filters! Oh yeah, I was a great smoker.
• The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I’ve ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
• You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
• Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
• I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
• Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we’re just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
• There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
• I believe in my writing.
• First of all, I’ve been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn’t write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
• I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
• QVC has been very good to me.
• What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That’s why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
• ‘Tryin’ to Get the Feeling’ has been a revelation. I’d forgotten how powerful that was. I’d forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I’m older it means even more.
• You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
• These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn’t crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
• Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
• ‘If I Should Love Again’ – I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn’t a single and people didn’t really know about it, but it’s a beautiful song and that’s part of what I’m loving.
• The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
• My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
• Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
• You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
• I love any opportunity I have to make music.
• Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
• Sneakers are not my thing.
• For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
• Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
• My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
• Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
• No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
• I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
• Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
• Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
• I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
• We went to see Britney Spears and I fell in love. She was singing to me, I know it. I’m so in love with her. I love her music, I do.
• I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time. No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

Barry Manilow Important Facts

• In 2012 he admitted that he smoked up to three packs of cigarettes a day for 30 years.
• Married partner of thirty years, Garry Kief [2014].
• Currently on his One More Night…One Last Time tour. [October 2004]
• Began a new show at the Las Vegas Paris Hotel & Casino entitled “Manilow.” [March 2010]
• Currently appearing at the Las Vegas Hilton in “Music and Passion” [February 2005]
• Performing at his own Vegas venue, Barry Manilow: Music and Passion [March 2005]
• Touring the U.S. promoting his new album “Here at the Mayflower” [January 2002]
• Performed at A Capitol Fourth on July 4, 2013.
• Hospitalized on December 12, 2011 to have surgery for bursitis in his hips and to repair torn leg muscles.
• Is a good friend of Donna Summer, who did a successful cover of his 1975 hit “Could it Be Magic”.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
• His first chart-topper “Mandy” (written by Scott English and Richard Kerr) was originally titled “Brandy.” The song toppled Elton John’s rendition of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” from the number one chart spot in January 1975.
• Contrary to popular belief, his signature tune “I Write the Songs” was not written by him, but by (Beach Boy) Bruce Johnston. The song ousted the Bill Fries (C.W. McCall) hit “Convoy” from the US number one position in January 1976.
• “Looks Like We Made It” (written by Richard Kerr and Will Jennings) charted in July 1977 knocking Shaun Cassidy’s cover of “Da Doo Ron Ron” from the number one slot in the US.
• Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.
• Played the accordion as a child.
• Won a Special Tony Award in 1977.
• Early in his career, he wrote advertising jingles for such clients as State Farm Insurance, McDonalds, Dr. Pepper soda and Stri-Dex anti-acne medicine.
• Curently (2004) resides in Palm Springs
• Still resides in New York City, but has a home in Los Angeles.
• Wrote “Harmony”, a play still traveling the nation in 2003
• Son of Edna Manilow and Harold Pincus.
• Played piano for Bette Midler.
• As a child, he was raised in the Williamsburg part of Brooklyn, New York.
• Graduated from Eastern District High School in 1961
• Born at 9:00am-EWT at Beth Moses Hospital, New York

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