You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
Barry ManilowI come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
Barry ManilowMy style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Barry Manilow