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He was the fourth of seven children born to Clement and Mildred Mathis. His father performed briefly in vaudeville and exposed all of the Mathis siblings to music. Before he entered his teens, young John received vocal lessons from Connie Cox in exchange for performing chores around her home. When he entered San Francisco State College he originally had planned to become a physical education instructor. At San Francisco State he broke classmate and basketball great Bill Russell's high jump record. While in college he began performing at a small local bar called The International Settlement, where he met performers Maya Angelou and Joan Weldon. Later performances at a club called The Blackhawk caught the attention of Columbia Records producer George Avakian. When Avakian called for Mathis to make his first recording, the young singer and then college track star had to make a unique decision: whether to record or to tryout for the 1956 Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. He chose to make his first single "Wonderful, Wonderful". To date he has recorded over 80 albums selling millions of albums worldwide More than 60 of his albums have been certified gold and/or platinum. "Heavenly" alone remained on the pop charts for 295 weeks. His 1958 album "Johnny's Greatest Hits" began "Greatest Hits" tradition copied by every record company since then. This album spent an unprecedented 490 continuous weeks (almost ten years) on the Billboard Top Albums Chart, and garnered notation in the Guinness Book Of World Records. For over 6 decades Mathis has continued to record, musically evolve, and perform at the world's most prestigious venues, earning a permanent place in American music history.

For the first 20 years of my life, I think, I sang standing with my eyes closed and my fists clenched. Mostly it didn&#39;t bother the people in the audience, but it did bother the critics, so much that I got horrible reviews, terrible. They said &#39;He has no stage presence&#39;, &#39;He&#39;s shy&#39;, &#39;He doesn&#39;t know what to do between songs&#39;, &#39;He fidgets&#39;, &#39;When he sings, he closes his eyes and just goes off and...&#39; 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&#39;t changed at all, it&#39;s just that they finally decided that they liked what I was doing.

If you really want to learn about a person, play a round of golf with him or her. You&#39;ll learn how they treat their dog, their husband or wife, and their children. You&#39;ll learn how they react to missed opportunities, because that&#39;s all golf is--a lot of missed opportunities.

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