Jimmy Roselli, whose cool operatic type of voice made him a top crooner and who Jerry Lewis once said “sings as an Italian should sing,” grew up on the same street as Frank Sinatra, in Hoboken, NJ.
Abandoned as a baby by his father after his mother died while giving birth to him in 1925, he was raised by his Neapolitano-born grandfather. His grandfather’s love for Neapolitan songs is what inspired a young Jimmy to start singing.
