Paul Anka is a pop singer and songwriter who has been considered one of the finest classical singers for over half a century. Although it is mainly for his music that he is known around the world, Anka has also appeared in many films and television series.
Bio and Age
The Canadian singer and actor was born PaulAlbert Anka on July 30, 1941 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. While her father, Andrew Emile “Andy” Anka Sr. was an American of Syrian-American descent, her mother Camelia Anka was a Canadian-Lebanese.
Raised alongside a brother and sister as the eldest child in a Christian family, Paul Anka had a talent for singing since he was just a child. At the same time, he was good at sports, but it was with the latter that he would end up. At the age of 11 he had already started singing in nightclubs.
Although his father’s emphasis was on his son having received a good education, when Paul went to Fisher Park High School, he took up singing and was part of the Bobby Soxers group, a vocal trio. Soon after, he began composing his own songs, but his father sent him to Los Angeles to focus on his education.
However, his musical talent caught the interest of his uncle who introduced the young boy to Ernie Freeman, a music producer who helped Anka record his first songs to only 3,000 copies. After that, he returned to Canada where he began to dream of a career in law or reporting. Nevertheless, he will return to the United States, to New York, a Canadian quartet, the Rover Boys, during his vacation. He met ABC-Paramount’s Don Costa and after a month a contract was signed and Diana was released. The song would sell over nine million copies and launch a long and successful career for him.
His first album, Paul Anka was released in 1958. In the years to come, he produced many other albums and singles which met with great success all over the world. Building on his many accomplishments as a singer and songwriter, he was named Composer of the Year in 1975 at the Juno Awards and was also inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2005.
Besides music, the legend also appeared in a number of film productions such as TC’s 1964 series Valentine’s Day, The Hour of the Red Skelton (1965), The Fall Guy (1983), A Story Crime (1987) and Ordinary Magic (1993).
Net value
More than a singer and an actor, he is PaulAnka is also a businessman who co-founded ARHT Media, a startup in the holographic technology sector. It is thanks to all this that he has an estimated net worth of over $10 million.
Paul Anka’s Wife and Children
When it comes to relationships, the singer has had his own very fair share as he has been married up to three times so far. He first married in 1963 and it was to a model, Anne de Zogheb. He met Anne, daughter of a Lebanese diplomat in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2012 while on a fashion assignment.
Just a year after they met, Anne De Zogheb and Paul Anka became husband and wife and when the couple had their second child, she decided to leave the model for good.
Although the marriage was blessed with five children: Amanda Anka, Anthea Anka, Alexandra Anka, Alicia Anka and Amelia Anka, it was not to be forever, as in 2000 Paul and Anne decided to end the marriage after more than three decades of living together.
Anne De Zogheb, who was also of English, French, Dutch and Greek descent, died on March 29, 2017.
The next woman who became the wife of the legendary singer is American model, actress and author Anna Anka. The two met after being hired as a personal trainer in 2001. Although they got married in 2008, they had already started dating for a long time and she had given birth to Anka’s sixth child, a son. 2005. She also had a daughter from a previous marriage.
Unfortunately, Paul and Anna Anka’s marriage ended in 2010, although it was in 2009 that Paul filed the divorce papers.
In 2016, the 75-year-old singer married a third time to Lisa Pemberton after dating her for six years.
the size
Although he is a handsome man, Anka is not the tallest man you can see at any stage. He has a height of 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in).
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