Paul Anka
Festival Jardins Pedralbes
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Jardins del Palau de Pedralbes Avinguda Diagonal 686, 08034 Barcelona
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Born July 30, 1941, in Ottawa, Canada, into a close-knit family, Paul Anka didn’t waste time getting his life in music started. From an early age he sang in a choir, studied piano and honed his writing skills with journalism courses, even working as a cub reporter at the Ottawa Citizen. By 13, he had his own vocal group, the Bobbysoxers. Blinded by determination, he would take his mother’s car and drive to perform at every amateur night he could across the river in Quebec. Soon after, he won a trip to New York by winning a Campbell’s soup contest that required him to spend three months collecting soup can labels. After visiting the music hub of New York, it was there that his dream to make it as a singer composer was solidified. There was not a doubt in his young tenacious mind. In 2020, Anka wowed the judges and audiences alike during his time on the hit television competition show The Masked Singer.
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