Matt monroe singer biography paper

A Short Biography

A singer once said “his pitch was right on the nose: his word enunciations letter perfect: his understanding of a song thorough.

Though Matt Monro died in 1985 aged just 54, his music continues to flourish today.

He will be missed very much not only by myself, but by his fans all over the world”. The singer was the legendary Frank Sinatra. The man he spoke about: the irreplaceable Matt Monro

High praise indeed then for a boy whose early years knew him under such auspicious names as Terry Fitzgerald, Al Jordan, Fred Flange and his true birth name Terence Edward Parsons.

Born on 1st December 1930 in Shoreditch, London, he was the youngest in a family of five.

He left school at the age of fourteen and landed his first job as “offal boy” with the Imperial Tobacco Company.

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Matt left school at age 14 and tried a succession of jobs, alongside which he exercised his natural singing talent in performances at a number of local venues.

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The highly-anticipated story of one of Britain's most iconic singers, tracing Matt Monro's life from his poverty stricken upbringing in post-war Britain.

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Thus followed a string of such jobs. At the tender age of seventeen and a half, he volunteered for the army for twelve years. After two years he volunteered for overseas duty and was posted to Hong Kong.

He entered a series of popular talent shows and wo