Word: strader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Gary, 32, describes himself as "a lyric baritone with a freakish range" (three octaves). Born John Gary ("My mother was a Gary Cooper fan") Strader in Watertown, N.Y., he toured the South as "the all-American Irish boy soprano" before he was ten. Blond, boyishly engaging Gary woos with his high-register, artfully shaded renderings of Danny Boy and Unchained Melody. His ability to hold a note for a seeming eternity, he says, is a skill that comes from his many hours spent underwater working as a professional scuba diver. In that capacity, he claims the world...