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According to Avnet, Groban was very nervous about standing in for Bocelli and had to be talked into it his performance prompted the show hostess, Rosie O'Donnell, to ask him to appear on her show the following week, which in turn led to an appearance on Ally McBeal. #1st studios siberian m 41 series#Groban worked for David Foster as a rehearsal singer on a series of high-profile events, including the January 1999 California gubernatorial inauguration of Gray Davis and the 1999 Grammy Awards where-as a stand-in for Andrea Bocelli-he rehearsed Foster's " The Prayer" with Céline Dion. At the time, Groban had no recording experience and was preparing for his studies at Carnegie Mellon. In late 1997, the 16-year-old Groban was introduced by his vocal coach, Seth Riggs, to Grammy-winning producer and arranger David Foster and future manager Brian Avnet. Four months into his first semester, Groban was offered a recording contract and left college to pursue a singing career. He was admitted to and briefly attended Carnegie Mellon University, intent on studying musical theater. He went on to attend the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theater major and graduated in 1999. In the summers of 19, he also attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts Camp in Michigan, majoring in musical theater, and began taking vocal lessons. At this time, he was more focused on acting, playing Tevye in his high school's production of Fiddler on the Roof. His music teacher chose him to sing a solo of "S'wonderful" at the school's cabaret night, where he sang alone on stage for the first time. Groban first sang in public when he was in the seventh grade. His mother's ancestry includes English, German, and Norwegian one of her own grandfathers had also been Jewish. His father is a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Ukraine, and converted from Judaism to Christianity upon marrying his mother. Groban was born in Los Angeles, California, to Jack Groban, a businessman, and Lindy Groban (née Johnston), a school teacher.
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