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berlin karaoke Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989</small>) was a American composer, lyricist, and according to many, the greatest songwriter in history. He was born near Siberia in Russia, and his father, a Jewish cantor at the synagogue, had to uproot the family when he was five because of Russia's pogroms which destroyed their village. They settled in New York's Lower East Side in 1893, but a few years later, when he was eight years old, his father died suddenly, requiring that he quit school and sell newspapers to help support the family. When he turned fourteen, he left home and began living on the streets of the Bowery. After a few years of doing odd jobs, he found work as a singing waiter in saloons, deriving most of his income from tips. He taught himself to play piano by picking out tunes in the back after the bars closed for the night. While working, he would sometimes sing patriotic songs to the patrons—his Irish boss calling him a "Yiddishe Yankee Doodle!"Source: Wikipedia

Genres: Soundtracks, Ballad
Languages: English
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