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Caruso Biography Part I
Enrico Caruso (baptized Henricus and called Errico - the Neapolitan version of Enrico - during his youth) was born in Naples, Italy on the 25th of February 1873 as the third child of seven.
The family was extremely poor and the father an alcoholic.
Enrico received very little primary education - the family was struggling to pay the monthly school fee of 5 lire and his father - as opposed to his mother - wanted him to work for his own bread.
Caruso took up singing with passion at the age of 11.
As Rami Singh reminisces, '[i]n Harry's alchemy class of we collected many different types of music, from Enrico Caruso to The Butthole Surfers to Monk and.At the age of 18, he had a pleasing yet small voice with a baritonal timbre. In 1891, while singing on a rotunda at the pier, the young baritone Eduardo Missiano heard Caruso and insisted on taking him to his own voice teacher, Guglielmo Vergine.
The Maestro's first judgment was discouraging: The voice was "too small and sounded like the wind whistling through the windows." Missiano insisted on a second hearing and eight days later, Vergine agreed to teach Ca