Tuesday, January 28, 2025

January 28 - Joey Fatone; Giovanni Battista Velluti (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for January 28th are here: John Tavener (2020), Artur [Arthur] Rubinstein; Johann Ernst Bach (2021), Giovanni Battista Velluti; Ferdinand Hérold (2022), Gottfried Vopelius (2023), and Ferdinand Hérold (2024)

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Joey Fatone (b. 28 January 1977) is an American singer, dancer, actor, and television host. 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make It Work


In 2007, he came in second place on Dancing with the Stars. He was the host of the U.S. and Australian versions of The Singing Bee. Fatone was the announcer for Family Feud, and has hosted on the Food Network’s Rewrapped, the Game Show Network’s Common Knowledge, the Live Well Network’s My Family Recipes, and was "Rabbit" on the first season of The Masked Singer. He has acted in movies and on Broadway. – heavily adapted from Wikipedia


When Joey Fatone

Struck out on his own,

Putting the boy band behind him,

He did this and that

At the drop of a hat,

And you never knew where you might find him.

 

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Giovanni Battista Velluti (28 January 1780 – 22 January 1861), was an Italian castrato soprano.


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Changed World


Giovanni Battista Velluti was last

   Of the line of the castrated stars;

And when he retired the era had passed

   Of post-orchiectomy scars.


We still go to surgeons to alter our looks,

   For work on our breasts and our faces,

But castrati are now in the history books,

   And boys become tenors and basses.

 

 

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