Word: locanda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Syrian in derivation and Canadian by birth, Paul Anka was raised in Ottawa, where his father ran a restaurant called The Locanda. At twelve, Paul organized his own trio, at 14 he sold his first song-to a small record company in Los Angeles. Blau Wildebeeste Fontaine sold a mere 3,000 copies, disappointing the ambitious youth, who felt that the world was passing him by. But then came the climax of a lifetime. "It was in the spring of my fifteenth year," he recalls solemnly. In stirring tribute to an older woman (she was pushing 18), he wrote Diana...
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