Salvatore la puma biography
- Salvatore John Giovanni La Puma was an Italian American short story writer.
- Salvatore John Giovanni La Puma (February 21, 1929 – May 8, 2008) was an Italian American short story writer.
- Sal LaPuma grew up in the suburbs surrounding Kansas City, Missouri.
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Opera Tenor Salvatore Puma Family
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He was married to Maria Ramirez Flores. Did they have any children and grandchildren? Here is his obituary.
Salvatore Puma was born on May 6th, 1920, in Racalmuto, in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy.
He studied singing in Parma and later in Milan with the former baritone Emilio Ghirardini.
His debut was on April 10th, 1949 at the Teatro Rossini, in Pesaro, as Radames in "Aida".
Salvatore Puma sang at all the most important Italian theatres and at the music festivals of Verona (Arena), Torre del Lago (Puccini Festival), Florence (Maggio Musicale Florentino) and Rome (Terme di Caracalla). Besides, he sang in Paris, Strasbourg, Vienna, Brusels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Malta, Hamburg, Munich, Zürich, Bucharest, Budapest, Sophia, Belgrade, La Coruña, Tokyo and Osaka. In the United States he sang in Philadelphia, New Orleáns, Miami and Hartford. In Latin America he sang in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago de Chile.
Salvatore Puma belonged to a kind of singers almost completely "extinct" in our days:
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Salvatore La Puma
American writer
Salvatore John Giovanni La Puma (February 21, 1929 – May 8, 2008) was an Italian American short story writer.
Life
He was born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. In 1951, he was drafted, and served in the Korea War as a medic. In 1959, he moved to Westchester, and worked as an advertising copy editor. In 1967, he moved to Santa Barbara, California.[1][2][3] He married Linda Ferrara in 1955; they had six children; they divorced in 1977; he married Joan Dewberry in 1980; they divorced in 2000.[4][5]
His work appeared in Antioch Review, Kenyon Review.[6] and Zyzzyva.[7] He died in Santa Barbara on May 8, 2008.
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References
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