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He’s long since taken his place as a musical icon in Edmonton, but John Scivoletto still feels bad about what he put his parents through as a child.
“Oh, it was terrible,” the 82-year-old accordionist and businessman, better known to Edmontonians as John Giovanni, laments with a hint of humour. “I was always practicing scales and chords and other things in the house. It must have been awful for them.”
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Giovanni, who recently closed down the music shop that bears his stage name after 53 years in three different locations, is having a little fun. It was his dad, after all, who encouraged his youngest son on the instrument back home in Modica, Sicily, and during the family’s four-year sojourn in Belgium. By the time they made their way to Edmonton around 1955 Giovanni was already something of a musical sava
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