Engelbert Humperdinck Featured on Villages-News.com
International music legend Engelbert Humperdinck has been featured on Villages-News.com, where he discusses his extraordinary career, his friendships with Dean Martin and Elvis Presley, his upcoming tour, and much more! You can read some of the feature below, but be sure to head over to Villages-News.com to read the full exclusive interview.
“I was starving,” Engelbert said. “I started singing at 17 and I didn’t make any money until I was 28. It was a struggle but I never gave up.”
Those hard years helped mold a performer who would sell over 150 million records. “I had no idea ‘Release Me’ would be a hit,” Engelbert said. “The single was selling over 100,000 copies a day at one point. All this was heady stuff for a scuffling pop singer from Leicester, England.I was totally surprised and grateful that it became the No. 1 record in the world.” During the 1970s, Engelbert became a worldwide smash as a romantic balladeer. He had his own television show, played the biggest clubs in Vegas and throughout the world. The hits included: “The Last Waltz,” “After the Lovin’” “A Man Without Love,” “Am I That Easy to Forget” and “There Goes My Everything.”And he never forgot his long road to success.
“The struggle gave me confidence and an understanding of the business,” Engelbert said. “There are a lot of so-called one-hit wonders, who have a big hit and then disappear. I learned a lot through my experience that you have to keep working hard, change with the times and grow as a performer.“You never know how long a career will last. It depends on your tenacity and knowing what an audience wants and giving it to them.”
One singer who befriended him and helped teach those lessons was Dean Martin.“He was a tremendous actor and stage performer,” Engelbert said. “Dean would never rehearse. He would show up and use cue cards, but he was always perfect. No one else could do that, the way Dean did it. He was extremely nice to me.”
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Engelbert Humperdinck will be performing live on Tuesday, January 12th at 7PM in the Mount Dora Community Theater. He will also be performing on Wednesday, January 13th at 7PM in The Sharon. For more information visit: engelbert.com/tour
Engelbert Calling is available for purchase at all of Humperdinck’s US tour dates as well as music retailers nationwide and online from our webstore, iTunes, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Bandcamp, and Spotify. Humperdinck’s limited edition vinyl, Duets EP, will be available for purchase at all US tour dates as well as in the our web-store. Limited edition Humperdinck posters are available for purchase on all tour dates.
