A Crooner Looks Back At His Career

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 22, 2015

As the lead singer of doo-wop group Little Anthony and the Imperials, Jerome Anthony Gourdine, also known as Little Anthony, became famous for his high-pitched falsetto voice, and rose to stardom in the 1950s R&B scene. His life and music are the subjects of his autobiography Little Anthony: My Journey, My Destiny.  

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Little Anthony will be performing his one-man show, "Little Anthony: An Evening of Story and Song" at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead, Long Island, July 25, at 8:00 p.m.

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