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John Royce Mathis Wiki Biography

John Royce Mathis was born on 30 September 1935, in Gilmer, Texas USA, and is a singer known for singing a variety of ballads, jazz and standards. His popularity and fame has earned him high sales, such that he was named the third biggest selling artist of the 20th century. The numerous opportunities he took throughout his career have solidified his net worth.

How rich is Johnny Mathis? Sources inform us of a net worth that is at $400 million, mostly accumulated through his successful music career. He’s released platinum selling records, and also worked with some of the other biggest names in the industry. He owns a mansion in Hollywood Hills and a few production companies.

Johnny started learning music at an early age – when his father discovered he had a talent for performing, he bought Johnny his first piano, which he learned on and started performing at home, at school and in church. When he was 13, he found voice teacher Connie Cox, who helped him work on his voice while he did jobs around her house. While at George Washington High School, he was also well-known for his track skills and playing basketball, because of which he was offered an athletic scholarship at San Francisco State University, aspiring to become a teacher one day.

Things changed when he was singing with friends at the Black Hawk Club. It was then that he was noticed by Helen Noga, who offered to manage Mathis, giving him numerous opportunities to perform at clubs. He eventually caught the attention of George Avakian, who convinced Johnny to sign with Colombia Records. Around the same time, Mathis was also offered to train for the US Olympic team as a high jumper, but he decided to go for a music career based on his father’s advice, as sport was largely amateur at that time. His first album was only a moderate success, but after releasing his second album, he soon found that he was being contacted by various companies to perform and record songs for movies. His appearance in the movie “Lizzie” and on television in “The Ed Sullivan Show” boosted his popularity and net worth to great heights.

In 1958, “Johnny’s Greatest Hits” was released and it spent nine and a half years in the Billboard Top 100 Charts, to 1967. Mathis decided to leave Noga’s management and establish Jon Mat Records, which subsequently handled his recordings, and Rojon Productions which handled all his appearances. He continued to make music, but felt a bit of a decline during the popularity of The Beatles and a rather different type of new music.  However, he was back in the charts by the late-1970s, releasing Christmas songs and recording duets with other artists such as Deniece Williams, Dionne Warwick, Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight, and many others, all of which contributed to her rising net worth.

By the year 2000, Mathis had started limiting the number of concerts and performances he did in the year, but he still made numerous appearances on television, plus his music was featured in shows like “Mad Men”, and the “X-Files”.

Along with Barbra Streisand, Johnny is the artist that has the longest tenure with Colombia Records; his net worth has risen accordingly.

For his personal life, Johnny has been known to continue his enthusiasm for sports outside of music. He hosted the Johnny Mathis Golf Tournaments and loves to play golf during his free time. He’s had his bouts with alcohol and prescription drug addiction, and gone through rehab for both. He mentioned his stand on being comfortable with a life of homosexuality in 1982, but the topic only surfaced again in 2006, when Mathis stated that he had received death threats that had prompted him not to talk about it any further. He lived in SanFrancisco for many years, so he added that his sexual situation was not that unusual in that part of the world.

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John Royce Mathis Quotes

• If you really want to learn about a person, play a round of golf with him or her. You’ll learn how they treat their dog, their husband or wife, and their children. You’ll learn how they react to missed opportunities, because that’s all golf is–a lot of missed opportunities.
• For the first 20 years of my life, I think, I sang standing with my eyes closed and my fists clenched. Mostly it didn’t bother the people in the audience, but it did bother the critics, so much that I got horrible reviews, terrible. They said ‘He has no stage presence’, ‘He’s shy’, ‘He doesn’t know what to do between songs’, ‘He fidgets’, ‘When he sings, he closes his eyes and just goes off and…’ Those reviews bothered me a great deal. But I lived with it. And then finally one day all the reviews became positive. And I hadn’t changed at all, it’s just that they finally decided that they liked what I was doing.

John Royce Mathis Important Facts

• As usual, still performing at prestigious venues throughout the United States. [2004]
• Recording duet with Ray Charles for Charles’ upcoming compact disc album of duets. [2004]
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1501 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
• Has the distinction of having an album – “Johnny Mathis’ Greatest Hits” on the Billboard charts for longer than any other album in history: 490 weeks, or the equivalent of 9-1/2 years.
• Went to high school with Lee Meriwether.
• An avid golfer, he hit his fifth hole-in-one at the 176 yard, 16th hole at the Riviera Country Club in April 2004.
• Referenced in the song ‘The Call of the Wild (Merengue)’ by David Byrne on his 1989 album, ‘Rei Momo’.
• Mathis has had a string of hits, all on Columbia records, stretching from the 1950s through the 1980s and beyond. Hit singles include “It’s Not For Me to Say,” “Chances Are,” “Wonderful! Wonderful!,” “A Certain Smile,” “Misty,” “Gina,” “What Will Mary Say?,” and “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” (Duet with Denise Williams). Hit albums include “Wonderful! Wonderful!,” “Open Fire, Two Guitars,” “Johnny’s Greatest Hits,” “Heavenly,” “Faithfully,” “Warm,” “Merry Christmas,” and “Up, Up, and Away.”
• Was a featured vocalist on the Grammy nominated (2004 awards) album “XXL” by Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band. Composer-arranger-pianist-saxophonist-band leader Gordon Goodwin has remained a longtime friend of Mathis and was once his former pianist.
• Won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award on 23 February 2003.
• As of 2004, he has had the longest stay of any popular artist with Columbia Records to date, having recorded for them almost exclusively since 1956.
• Track and Field Tournament at San Francisco State University, the Johnny Mathis Invitational, is named in his honour.
• Just two years after his first recordings, his 1958 record album “Johnny’s Greatest Hits” (Columbia Records) started the “Greatest Hits” trend for recording artists and record companies; every record company thereafter began to release “Greatest Hits” albums for their recording artists.
• One of the most financially ingenious artists in the recording industry, Mathis has full responsibility and creative control of the production of his recordings through Jon Mat Records, Inc. where he chooses his own songs, producers, etc. while Columbia Records remains responsible for distribution.
• Jazz pianist and composer Vince Guaraldi, who composed the music for A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and many other “Charlie Brown” TV specials was the featured pianist and then-unknown talent on Mathis’ demonstration recordings for Columbia Records in 1956.
• A shrewd financial investor, Mathis owns a Post Office in Wisconsin that he leases to the United States Postal Service.
• Early in his career, his then manager Helen Noga attempted to develop a feature film about the life of Black/Peruvian Indian saint Martin de Porres with Mathis portraying the Afro-Peruvian title role. This project, however, never reached fruition.

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