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Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer and film actor. Martin found phenomenal success in almost every entertainment venue. Although suffering a few down times during his career, Martin always managed to come out on top.
Biography
Early life
Martin was born Dino Paul Crocetti in the West Virginia-Ohio border-town of Steubenville, Ohio. His parents were Italian-born barber Gaetano Crocetti and his wife, Angela. He spoke only Italian until age five.Martin dropped out of school in the tenth grade and took a string of odd jobs ranging from steelworker to bootlegger; at the age of 15, he was a 135-pound boxer who billed himself as "Kid Crocetti." It was from his prizefighting years that he got a broken nose (it was later fixed), a permanently split lip, and his beat-up hands. For a time, he worked as a roulette stickman and croupier. At the same time, he practiced his singing with local bands. Billing himself as "Dino Martini" (after the then-famous Metropolitan Opera tenor, Nino Martini), he got his first break working for the Ernie McKay Orchestra. But in the early 1940s, he started singing for bandleader Sammy Watkins. It was here that he changed his name to Dean Martin. A hernia got Martin out of the Army during World War II, and with wife and children in tow, he worked for several bands throughout the early 1940s, scoring more on looks and personality than vocal ability until he developed his own smooth singing style.
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