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BIOGRAPHY
Many people first discovered Josh Groban via the 2001 season finale of Fox TV's Ally McBeal, on which he played a shy, nerdy misfit who asks Ally to his high school prom (where, naturally, he breaks into song and wows the student population with his angelic voice). Yet in real life, the 21-year-old classical crossover singer has become a bona fide heartthrob who'd never have trouble getting a date. Since 1998, when at age 17 the boyishly handsome, Los Angeles-based baritone singer was introduced by his vocal coach to Grammy-winning producer/arranger David Foster, his phenomenal career has been on the rise, resulting in a huge fanbase of adoring devotees who call themselves "Grobanites."
Things quickly fell into place for young Groban after he hooked up with Foster, as that fateful meeting led almost immediately to a last-minute performance at an inaugural program for California Governor Gray Davis. This was followed by career-making appearances on Ally, Oprah, The Tonight Show, The Today Show, Rosie O'Donnell, Larry King Live, and other TV shows, including a profile on ABC's 20/20 that created a major spike in sales for his Foster-produced, self-titled debut album. He later duetted with Welsh opera singer Charlotte Church at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics' closing ceremony, which was watched by more than 1 billion people worldwide, and starred in his own PBS special as part of the Great Performance series.
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