Manilow then earned money by working as a pianist, producer and arranger.ĭuring this time, he began work as a commercial jingle writer and singer, which continued through the remainder of the 1960s. Herrod used Manilow's composition in the Off Broadway musical, which had an eight-year run at New York's 13th Street Theatre. Instead, Manilow wrote an entire original score. In 1964, Manilow met Bro Herrod, a CBS director, who asked him to arrange some songs for a musical adaptation of the melodrama The Drunkard. He later studied Musical Theater at the Juilliard performing arts school. He also worked at CBS while he was a student in order to pay his expenses.

He enrolled in the City College of New York, where he briefly studied before entering the New York College of Music. While in high school, he met Susan Deixler, who would later briefly become his wife. Manilow grew up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn and graduated in 1961 from the now-defunct Eastern District High School. His Irish roots trace back to Limerick, Ireland. Manilow's father was born to a Jewish father, named Harry Pincus, and an Irish-American Catholic mother, while Manilow's maternal grandparents were of Russian Jewish background. īarry Manilow was born Barry Alan Pincus on June 17, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Edna Manilow and Harold Pincus (who went by his own stepfather's surname, Keliher).

Manilow has sold more than 85 million records as a solo artist worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists. He has also produced Grammy-nominated albums for Bette Midler, Dionne Warwick, Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughan. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award (winning once) as a producer, arranger and performer a total of fifteen times (and in every decade) from 1973 to 2015. Although not a favorite artist of music critics, Manilow has been praised by entertainers including Frank Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s as saying, 'He's next.' Īs well as producing and arranging albums for himself and other artists, Manilow has written and performed songs for musicals, films, and commercials for corporations such as McDonald's, Pepsi-Cola, and Band-Aid, from the 1960s. Manilow has released 13 platinum and six multi-platinum albums. He has recorded and released 51 Top 40 singles on the Adult Contemporary Chart, including 13 that hit number one, 28 appeared within the top ten, and 36 in the top twenty.

His hit recordings include ' Could It Be Magic', ' Mandy', ' I Write the Songs', ' Can't Smile Without You' and ' Copacabana (At the Copa)'.

Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus, June 17, 1943) is an American singer with a career that spans seven decades.

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