Sammy Goldstein Research Paper

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Sammy Goldstein is a singer and piano comedy actor from Paris Tennessee. The information about when he was born and when he lived in Paris seemed to be removed from Google’s indexing. Maybe he doesn’t want people to know his personal information. When he was 20 years old, he moved to Los Angeles and became a singer/pianist at a piano bar.He did this to try to support his acting career. However, he found a second career that he found had great success in. Over the next few years he worked around the world as a singer/pianist at nightclubs and cruise ships.

It says at that some of the clubs were in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Palm Springs ,Memphis, Chicago. Some of the cruises include the Norwegian Cruise Line, American Cruise Line, and the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.

In New York and Los Angeles
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He co-starred on many other shows as well. He was a talented piano and singer as well as actor. He was awarded many awards such as the 1995 Carbet Fellow and 2000 top 10 list of “Best male Vocalists” according to

Sammy had a wide variety of music to play and he made every party entertaining. According to some of his music was the “ standards of the ‘30s and ‘40s (Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Fats Waller), Big Band music (Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington), ‘50’s Rock & Roll (Elvis Presley, The Platters, Bill Haley & the Comets, The Big Bopper, Fats Domino), pop classics of the ‘60s and ‘70s (Billy Joel, Elton John, Barry Manilow, The Carpenters, Neil Diamond, The Beatles), Broadway hits (Cabaret, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, 42nd Street, Fiddler on the Roof, The Lion King”

He made the little town of Paris known and proud, because someone from our little town being famous is a big deal around here. He met many famous people and performed for them all around the world. There are other people from Paris that are famous such as Cherry Jones an award winning

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