John Royce Mathis (b. September 30 1935), known popularly as Johnny Mathis, is an American Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter of popular music. The last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the rock-dominated 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s. Starting his career with a standard flurry of singles, Mathis was far more popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums receiving gold and platinum status and seventy three making the Billboard charts to date. Mathis has sold more than 350 million records and albums.[LINK: http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=tblTopArt&action=] RIAA: Gold & Platinum Early life , on May 25, 2006.]]Mathis was born fourth of seven children in Gilmer, Texas to Clem and Mildred Mathis. The family moved when h

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