I had a different upbringing - my dad worked three jobs. You know, it wasn't as easy as they had it.
Robert DaviThere was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.
Robert DaviI met Quincy [Jones], he had heard my album, someone played the album and he flipped over it.
Robert DaviHere I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev in the 80s, My Way had just become a famous song, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev in a satirical, kind of cynical manner coined the term the Sinatra Doctrine and My Way was the song because the Baltic states in the Warsaw Pact wanted to go their own way and secede from the Soviet Union, so joking he says," Yeah, we've got the Sinatra Doctrine now."
Robert Davi