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He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. Generally recognized as the first international recording star, Caruso made around commercially released recordings from to Enrico Caruso came from a poor but not destitute background.

Caruso was the third of seven children and one of only three to survive infancy. For decades, there was a story of Caruso's parents having had 21 children, 18 of whom died in infancy. Caruso himself and his brother Giovanni may have been the source of the exaggerated number.

Enrico Caruso was an Italian operatic first lyric tenor then dramatic tenor.

Twenty boys and one girl — too many. I am number nineteen boy. Caruso's father, Marcellino, was a mechanic and foundry worker. Initially, Marcellino thought his son should adopt the same trade, and at the age of 11, the boy was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer who constructed and maintained public water fountains. Whenever visiting Naples in future years, Caruso liked to point out a fountain that he had helped to install.

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Caruso later worked alongside his father at the Meuricoffre factory in Naples. At his mother's insistence, he also attended school for a time, receiving a basic education under the tutelage of a local priest. He learned to write in a handsome script and studied technical draftsmanship. Caruso was encouraged in his early musical ambitions by his mother, who died in