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Al Martino
Jasper Cini was born in 1927 and became a friend and disciple of
Mario Lanza. Changing his name to Al Martino in the late 1940s
when he started his career as a romantic Italian baritone, his
breakthrough hit came with Here In My Heart (1952).
The song had been originally intended for Lanza but the older
man ceded the song to the beginner. The resulting hit was the
first number one on the newly established NME singles
chart in the UK.
Martino enjoyed a string of hits in the 60s, including the
enduring Spanish Eyes, and in 1972 he played the
character Johnny Fontane - a thinly-disguised Frank
Sinatra - in the wedding scene at the beginning of The
Godfather.
He was still recording until the night before his death in
2009, his final track being Garth Brooks' If Tomorrow Never
Comes
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