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BILLY KNIGHT
After all these years, Felix is in danger of being overshadowed by son Billy who appears on Juvenile Jury.
a scattering of people fully understand what's being sung, because only those brought up in a foreign tongue can catch all the beauty and nuances of the lyrics." To learn his roles, Felix has had to learn French, Italian, Spanish, German and Russian.
The opera roles in which he specializes are "Barber of Seville," "Lakme" and "Seraglio." But he sings everything from Jerome Kern to, well, almost — boogie woogie.
Felix was brought up on a plantation in Macon, Georgia, lived in Pensacola, Florida in his youth and, after two movie executives heard him sing pop tunes on a local station while in his middle teens, he was sent to Hollywood where he was signed by Universal. While in Hollywood, he was recommended to voice teacher Mebane Beasley, who started training him for opera. When he later got a contract with MGM, he was given a starring role, with Laurel and Hardy, in the Victor Herbert classic, "Babes in Toyland," which will shortly be revived under the title "Revenge Is Sweet." After that and a number of musical shorts, his manager had a personal disagreement with the company, was blackballed, and took all of his clients off the MGM lot.
Felix' musical education was a costly one. He received a Harkness scholarship which helped him considerably, but once, when he auditioned for a Guggenheim fellowship, the elderly ladies who heard and saw him came to the conclusion that he was too "sexy" for opera!
Felix estimates that his musical education took seven years and cost about thirty thousand dollars, and Felix still makes occasional trips to the Coast to study with Beasley.
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