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his first musical partnership was with his father, pasquale. tony s parents moved to the uk from southern italy. his father studied music while working as a cook and later became a vocal coach in london. his mother, carmela maria, took on a variety ofjobs. they worked themselves to the bone, really, two, threejobs each, morning, noon and night. quite menial ones at times? oh, absolutely. my mother cleaned offices in the morning. my brother and i used to clean them with her before we went to school. to survive and to have. ..to have a life, we had tojust, you know, work as hard as possible. and of course, that stayed with me. tony started playing the piano at the age of six, and by the time he was ten, he was regularly accompanying his father when he gave voice lessons. you know, the family business, you know, that means after school, running home, getting on the bus and going to the west end, where they were,

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