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Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, and actor. His songs include "Diana", "You Are My Destiny", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", "(You're) Having My Baby" and "My Way".
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entertainment · Canadian and American singer and actor (born 1941) · actor · film actor · singer-songwriter · singer · composer · musician · songwriter · also Paul Anka, Paul Albert Anka, Anka
Born 30 July 1941 · Q216563
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2026· 2 entries
Released album “Inspirations of Life and Love”.
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Sessions”.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Making Memories”.
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2019· 1 entry
Rejected pleas that he boycott the country
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2016· 1 entry
Made another guest appearance as himself in the "Spring" episode of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, a revival of the original show
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2013· 2 entries
Paul Anka's autobiography, My Way, co-written with David Dalton, was published in 2013.
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Released album “Duets”.
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2012· 2 entries
In 2012, Anka co-founded the holographic tech startup, ARHT Media.
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Anka co-founded the holographic tech startup, ARHT Media
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Songs of December”.
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Released album “Paul Anka's Early Years”.
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
Anka stated that Michael Jackson's new release titled "This Is It" was a collaborative effort between the two in 1980
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2008· 4 entries
Awarded Johnny Mercer Award (2008).
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Released album “The Essential”.
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In 2008, Anka married his personal trainer, Anna Åberg, in Sardinia, Italy.
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Anka married his personal trainer, Anna Åberg, in Sardinia, Italy
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Classic Songs My Way”.
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Released album “My Way: A Legend in Concert”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “The Most Beautiful Songs of Paul Anka”.
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Recorded a duet with 1960s Italian hitmaker Adriano Celentano, a new cover of "Diana", with Italian lyrics by Celentano-Mogol and with singer-songwriter Alex Britti on the guitar
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2005· 4 entries
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2005).
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Released album “Rock Swings”.
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Anka released an album of big-band arrangements of contemporary Rock songs titled, Rock Swings; the album provided a mainstream comeback of sorts that saw Anka awarded a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto
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Said that it was to a girl at his church whom he hardly knew
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2004· 1 entry
Was appointed an Officer Of The Order of Canada
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Anka + Feelings”.
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “German-American Line of Hits”.
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Released album “Paul Anka”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Best Of Paul Anka”.
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Released album “Christmas with Paul Anka”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “A Body of Work”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “A Touch of Class”.
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Released album “Golden Hits”.
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “Amigos”.
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Released album “The Best of United Artists Years 1973-1977”.
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Released album “In Italiano”.
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1995· 4 entries
Released album “My Heart Sings”.
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Released album “24 Karat Gold”.
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Released album “Songs I’d Wish I’d Written / Strictly Nashville”.
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Released album “Having My Baby”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “The Most of”.
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Released album “Hits and Rarities”.
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1993· 5 entries
Released album “Anni 60 italiani”.
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Recorded a duet with Filipino singer Regine Velasquez titled "It's Hard to Say Goodbye", included on her album Reason Enough
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Released album “Face in the Mirror”.
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Released album “Face 2 Face: Their Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Gold”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “My Greatest Songs”.
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Released album “My Way”.
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Released album “Zwei Mädchen aus Germany”.
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1991· 4 entries
Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1991).
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Released album “The ★ Collection”.
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Released album “The Original Hits 1957-1969”.
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Released album “Five Decades Greatest Hits”.
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1990· 3 entries
Anka became a naturalized citizen of the United States
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Released album “The Best of Paul Anka”.
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Released album “Diana”.
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1989· 4 entries
Released album “30th Anniversary Collection: His All Time Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Paul Anka 30 His All Time Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Let the Good Times Roll”.
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Released album “Somebody Loves You”.
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “The Very Best of Paul Anka”.
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Released album “Hello Young Lovers”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Freedom for the World”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1984).
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “Walk a Fine Line”.
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“s 1983 album Walk A Fine Line. Anka told celebrity website TMZ that Jackson then”
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Six”.
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1981· 4 entries
The Ottawa City Council named August 26 as "Paul Anka Day" to celebrate his quarter-century in show business
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Released album “Both Sides Of Love”.
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Released album “Paul Anka / The Everly Brothers (La grande storia del rock)”.
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Released album “Paul Anka / Frankie Laine (La grande storia del rock)”.
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Canadian Music Hall of Fame (1980).
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “I Grandi Successi Italiani”.
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Released album “Headlines”.
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “Golden Hour Of Paul Anka”.
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Released album “Listen to Your Heart”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “The Music Man”.
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1976· 5 entries
Anka hosted a television special, Paul Anka's Superstars, a music showcase that eventually was repackaged as an episode of The Midnight Special
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Released album “The Painter”.
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Released album “16 Super Hits”.
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Released album “Best Collection”.
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Released album “Sings His Favorites”.
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1975· 5 entries
Awarded Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year (1975).
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Released album “Remember Diana”.
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Released album “Feelings”.
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Released album “Times of Your Life”.
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Recorded a jingle for Kodak written by Bill Lane (lyrics) and Roger Nichols (melody) called "Times of Your Life"
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1974· 4 entries
Teamed up with Odia Coates to record the No
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Released album “Paul Anka Gold”.
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Released album “Anka”.
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Released album “The Original Hits Of Paul Anka”.
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1972· 3 entries
A street in Ottawa was named Paul Anka Drive
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Released album “Jubilation”.
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Released album “The Lonely Boy”.
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “70's”.
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1969· 3 entries
Released album “Life Goes On”.
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Released album “Goodnight My Love”.
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Released album “Diana (Paul Anka Sings His Greatest Hits)”.
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1968· 1 entry
With "La farfalla impazzita" by Battisti-Mogol
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1966· 1 entry
Released album “Strictly Nashville”.
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1964· 2 entries
Released an album titled Paul Anka à Paris; the six tracks on side B were sung in French
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Released album “Italiano”.
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1963· 5 entries
Anka purchased the rights and ownership of his ABC-Paramount catalog and re-recorded his earlier hits for RCA Victor, which he had joined in 1960
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Released album “Paul Anka’s 21 Golden Hits”.
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Released album “3 Great Guys”.
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Anka was married to Anne de Zogheb, the half-English and half-Lebanese daughter of Lebanese diplomat Charles de Zogheb, from February 16, 1963, until October 2, 2000.
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Released album “Songs I Wish I'd Written”.
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1962· 3 entries
Followed by "Piangerò per te" and "Ogni volta", which reached both No
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In San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she was a fashion model on assignment and under contract to the Eileen Ford Agency
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From a song Anka wrote earlier called "Toot Sweet"; it had been rewritten with lyrics and recorded by Annette Funicello in 1959 as "It's Really Love")
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1961· 2 entries
Released album “Paul Anka Sings His Big 15, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Paul Anka’s Great Hits — Strictly Instrumental”.
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1960· 4 entries
Released album “Paul Anka Sings His Big 15”.
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Released album “Swings for Young Lovers”.
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Released album “It’s Christmas Everywhere”.
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Appeared twice as himself in NBC's short-lived crime drama Dan Raven
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1959· 3 entries
Released album “Paul Anka in Italia”.
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Released album “Lonely Boy”.
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In Lappeenranta in 1989, at the Pori Jazz Festival in Pori on 19 July 2007 and in 2012, and in Tampere three times on 6 August 2008 and on 9 and 10 August 2009
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1958· 2 entries
Including "It's Time to Cry", which reached No
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Released album “Paul Anka’s Own Hits”.
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1956· 1 entry
With $100 given to him by his uncle, he went to Manhattan, New York City, where he auditioned for Don Costa at ABC Records, singing what was widely believed to be a lovestruck verse he had written to a former babysitter
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-07-30.
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