Excerpt from Some Famous Singers of the 19th Century Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez, only known to us under his stage name of Manuel Garcia, was born in Seville in 1775. He began his career as a singer, at the age of six, as chorister in the Cathedral, and must, even as a child, have shown the remarkable quali ties of energy and musical talent that distin guished him in later years, for by the time he was seventeen he was already well' known as singer, actor, composer and conductor, and his musical pieces, mostly operettas, were popa lar all over Spain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.