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Johnny Mathis Biography

Johnny Mathis was born John Royce Mathis. John is an American singer and songwriter of popular music. Mathis started his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts to date.

Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three separate recordings.

Johnny Mathis Age

Mathis was born on September 30, 1935, in Gilmer, Texas. He is 88 years old as of 2023. Mathis celebrates his birthday every 30th of September.

Johnny Mathis Height and Weight

He stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 7 inches. He weighs 72 kilograms. She has brown hair and brown eyes.

Facts About Johnny Mathis

  • Full Name: Johnny Mathis
  • Popular As: Johnny
  • Occupation: Singer
  • Age: 88 years
  • Birthday: September 30
  • Height: 5 ft 7 inches
  • Weight: 72 kg
  • Parents: Mildred Boyd, Clem Mathis
  • Siblings: Michael Mathis, Clem L. Mathis, Jr., Marguerite McMillian
  • Wife: Not Available
  • Children: Not Available
  • Net Worth: $400 Million

Johnny Mathis Family and Siblings

Mathis was born and raised in Gilmer, Texas United States to his loving and caring parents, Clem Mathis and Mildred Boyd. Both his parents were domestic cooks. He was raised in a family of seven children and he is the fourth in his family. Johnny is of African-American and Native American heritage. His family moved to San Francisco when he was about five years old settling on 32nd Avenue in the Richmond District, where he was raised.

His father was previously working in vaudeville where he was a singer and pianist and when he saw his son’s talent bought an old upright piano for $25(US $385 in 2021 dollars) and encouraged his music. He started learning songs and routines from his father and his parents ran his fan club. Mathis’ first song was “My Blue Heaven.” He began singing and dancing for visitors at home, school, and church functions.

Johnny Mathis Wife

Mathis is not married. Hi was a guy but he never had a partner.

The year 1982 saw US Magazine quote an article of Mathis stating that homosexuality is a way of life that he has grown accustomed to. He later said that that comment was supposed to have been off the record and did not publicly discuss his sexual orientation for many years after that. Back in the year 2006, he stated that his silence had been because of death threats he received as a result of that 1982 article.

Later on, the 13 of April 2006 saw him being granted a podcast interview with The Strip in which he talked about the subject once again. He also talked about how some of his reluctance to speak on the subject was partially generational. In an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning on the 14th of May 2017, he discussed the US Magazine article and confirmed that he is gay. He comes from San Francisco and it’s not usual to be gay in San Francisco.

Johnny states that he had some girlfriends, and some boyfriends, just like most people. He has not gotten married in his lifetime, hence he knew he was gay. He spoke to many news sources which include CBS about his sexuality and his story coming out.

Back in the month of November 2015, he returned home from a concert in Ohio to find his Hollywood house destroyed by a fire. Aside from this, he had owned it for about 56 years. While the character Shy Baldim from The Marvelous Mrs. Miasel is a composite character based on several different singers, Rachel Brosnahan said he identifies the most with the character.

Johnny Mathis Education

When Mathis was about 13 years old, his voice teacher, Connie Cox accepted him as her student in exchange for work around her house. He studied with Cox for about six years learning vocal scales and exercises, classical and operating singing, and voice production. The first band he sang with was formed by his high school friend Merl Saunders. He eulogized Saunders at his funeral in the year 2008 and thanked him for giving him his first chance as a singer.

Aside from this, he was a star athlete at George Washington High School in San Francisco. He was also a high jumper and hurdler and played on the basketball team. Back in the year 1954, he went on to enroll at San Francisco State College on an athletic scholarship and intended to become an English teacher and a physical education teacher. When he was there, he set a high jump record of 1.97 meters (6 feet 5.5 inches.)

The record is still one of the college’s top jump heights and was only 7 cm (3 inches) short of the 1952 Olympic record of 2.04 meters(6 feet 8.5 inches. Mathis and future NBA Star Bill Rusell were featured in a 1954 sports section article of the San Francisco Chronicle demonstrating their high-jumping skills(Russell was number 1 and Mathis was number 2 in the city of San Francisco during that time.)

Johnny Mathis Songs

  • Chances Are 1958
  • When a Child Is Born 1976
  • The Twelfth Of Never 1958
  • Too Much, Too Little, Too Late 1978
  • It’s Not for Me to Say 1957
  • The Last Time I Felt Like This 1979
  • Emotion 1978
  • It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 1986
  • My Love for You 1961
  • Misty 1959
  • A Certain Smile 1958
  • When Sunny Gets Blue 1955
  • Too Much 1993
  • Wonderful! Wonderful! 1955
  • Evie 1993
  • When I Am with You 1958
  • The Stroy Of Our Love 1961
  • Too Young 1972
  • 12th Of Never 1972
  • All I Ask of You 2000
  • Free 1995
  • Without Us 1978
  • Wild In The Wind 1958
  • What Will My Mary Say 1963
  • We Need a Little Christmas 1986
  • Begin the Beguine 1979
  • The Impossible Dream 1966
  • I Love My Lady 2011
  • Gina 1963
  • Stranger In Paradise 1959
  • How Do You Keep the Music Playing? 1993
  • That’s All 1959
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Johnny Mathis’s Career achievements

Together with Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Mathis, and Tony Bennett. They also carry the distinction of having the longest tenure of any recording artists on the Columbia label. Having the exception of a four-year break to record for Mercury Records in the mid-1960s, he has been with Columbia Records throughout his career from 1956 to 1963 and from 1968 till date.

Bob spent a number of years at Asylum Records and then re-signed with Columbia. He also recorded for Verve and his own Improv label from 1972 to 1986 when he returned to Columbia. Johnny has also been with the label since his 1973 album “Piano Man;” Streisand and Springsteen have never left.

He has also had five of his albums on the Billboard charts simultaneously, an achievement equaled by only three other singers: Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilow, and (posthumously) Prince. Aside from this, he has released 200 singles and had 71 songs chart around the world.

Johnny Mathis Tour

Most of his tours have been postponed.

 Johnny Mathis Dead

Mathis is not dead. He is alive and healthy.

Johnny Mathis Chances Are

Johnny Mathis Greatest Hits

  • Jack Gold
  • Johnny Mathis
  • Mitch Miller
  • Perry Botkin, Jr.
  • Ernie Freeman
  • Glenn Osser
  • D’Arneill Pershing
  • Roy M. Rogosin
  • Al Caiola
  • Frank Carroll
  • Milt Hinton
  • Al Ham
  • Mitch Miller
  • Ray Conniff
  • Ray Ellis
  • Tony Mottola

Johnny Mathis’s Net Worth

John is an American singer and songwriter of popular music. He has an estimated net worth of $400 million.

Johnny Mathis Albums

  • Johnny Mathis Live
  • Johnny Mathis Sings
  • Good Night Dear Lord
  • The Island
  • Merry Chrismas
  • I Love My Lady
  • In The Still of the Night

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