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Johnny Mathis, 89, retires from performing due to ‘age and memory issues’
US crooner, whose career stretches back to 1956, will play four more scheduled concerts but cancels remainder of 2025 run
So, it’s with sincere regret that due to Mr Mathis’s age and memory issues which have accelerated, we are announcing his retirement from touring and live concerts.” Mathis is regarded as one of America’s great romantic balladeers, whose rich, sincere voice lit up hits such as Misty, Chances Are, and his 1976 UK Christmas No 1 When a Child Is Born. Pop fashions changed and his crooning style fell out of favour come the middle of the 60s, but Mathis’s core fans stood by him while he maintained an extraordinary work rate, recording 53 studio albums between 1960 and 1990.
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