Jan peerce biography
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Jan Peerce
American opera singer (1904–1984)
Jan Peerce (born Yehoshua Pinkhes Perelmuth;[1] June 3, 1904 – December 15, 1984) was an American operatictenor.
Jan peerce biography
Peerce was an accomplished performer on the operatic and Broadway concert stages, in solo recitals, and as a recording artist. He is the father of film directorLarry Peerce.[2]
Family life
Jan Peerce was born Jacob Pincus Perelmuth[3] (though his Hebrew gravestone gives his first name as יהושע, or Joshua, not Jacob), to a Jewish family.[4] His parents, Levi (anglicized to Louis) and Henya Perelmuth, came from the village of Horodetz, formerly in Poland, now Belarus.[5] Their first child, a daughter, died in an epidemic.
In 1903 they emigrated to America along with their second child, a boy named Mottel. A year later, on June 3, 1904, their third child, Jacob Pincus, was born in a cold water flat in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York. He was nicknamed "Pinky"