Michael Amante is affectionately known as the "People's Tenor." His combination of suave all American good looks, romantic charm and emotionally charged singing has wowed his fans everywhere.

It starts with the intimate connection he makes with his fans, everyday folks flocking to his concerts...and who found some of his earliest fans in Italy a few years ago singing Italian opera arias and popular Neapolitan songs for an informal collection of priests from the Vatican. He has a stockpile of laudatory compliments. These days he's accumulating an Everest-like mountain of bonafide raves from the sort of well-pedigreed sources guaranteed to induce envy in fellow artists.

Legendary vocal superstar Tony Bennett will "guarantee you"-that Michael Amante is "the next Mario Lanza," further commenting during Amante's performance: "That's the most beautiful singing I've heard in years!" Countless newspaper reviews and features have described the effect of his golden-throated outpourings in glowing terms: a New York Times reporter, for example, described Amante as exhibiting "both the voice and charisma of a crossover star." The Philadelphia Exclusive asserted outright: "Amante rewrites the book on the idea of what a tenor can be." And...his PBS Special was awarded an Emmy Award nomination.