Neil Sedaka

Age: 70
Height: 5' 5"

Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Born: Mar. 13th, 1939

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Neil Sedaka's Main TV Roles

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

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Father of 'Marc Sedaka' (qv) and 'Dara Sedaka' (qv)
The song "The Diary" was inspired when he first met singer 'Connie Francis' (qv). They had spent all day going over songs to record and became quite bored. When Connie began writing in her diary Neil asked her if he could read it. Connie gave him a firm "no" and thus the inspiration for "The Diary" was born.
Was named as "King of Brooklyn" at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival in 1994.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983.
Cousin of 'Eydie Gorm�' (qv) and 'Hel�ne Sedaka'.
Studied classical piano at the Juilliard School for over a decade.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
Was part of the famous Brill Building stable of writers, which included 'Barry Mann (I)' (qv) and 'Cynthia Weil' (qv), 'Neil Diamond (I)' (qv) and 'Carole King' (qv) (Sedaka's former girlfriend) (1955)

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