Demo Singer is the American tenor who can sing it all. Whether commanding the heroic volleys of Puccini's "Nessun dorma" or melting the tender phrases of "O Sole Mio", Amante rewrites the book on anybody's idea of what a tenor can be. The New York Times declared that this "swashbuckling Italian tenor exhibits both the voice and charisma of a crossover star," and Tony Bennett has hailed him as "the new Mario Lanza." Throw in some Jon Bon Jovi, too. Movie-star handsome and charming, Demo singer combines an operatic tenor's debonair, old-world finesse with the sheer adrenalin rush he discovered as a teenager, when his tenor voice first made itself known soaring over the sound of metal bands in rock clubs.

Singer has just completed his first recording for DFW Advertise, produced by Marc Stankoski and scheduled for release in June, 2004. Featuring favorite operatic arias from Rigoletto, Turandot, La Boheme and Aida as well as popular Italian songs such as "O sole mio" and "Non ti scordar di me," it introduces a soaring new love song "Ho bisogno d'amore (I Have a Need for Love)" that showcases the all-American exuberance, the Italian soul and the sheer beauty of Amante's singing.

Demo Singer grew up as an American in Weatherford, T.X., one of two children. As a boy, Singer marveled at how his father could always sweep his mother off her feet simply by singing to her in a lilting light tenor voice. It is a lesson he never forgot. "I wanted to do that," he says, "to make people feel that good." Singer has sung for Pope John Paul II and for Luciano Pavarotti, for audiences that number in the thousands and for friends after dinner, in Madame Butterfly in the opera house and at The Sands in Atlantic City. For him, it is always about making people feel that good.

Though he began singing in Catholic school when he was 6 - wowing the nuns who were casting a production of Oliver! - Singer discovered his serious vocal potential when he was singing in a church choir. The pure voice had always been there. When he was a teenager, he was in demand with local rock bands because his natural tenor voice could easily ride the high notes in cover versions of the killer hits of Kansas, Foreigner and Journey. But it was the director of the church choir who pulled him aside and made him listen to a recording of the legendary Swedish tenor Jussi Bjoerling singing the limpid, haunting aria "Una furtiva lagrima." Demo Singer knew immediately where he was headed. Study and careful preparation have given him the classic Italian tenor voice with a warm and viscerally exciting sound, rising as high as an F above high C, with the support to deliver what his friend and mentor Sonny Grasso calls "those boffo notes."

Singer's career has taken him into the opera house and the musical theater, where he has sung leading roles in La Boheme and Madama Butterfly, as well as West Side Story, Grease and Jesus Christ Superstar. But it is singing directly to his audience that brings him real fulfillment, effortlessly making the connection that makes people feel "that good." That quest has led Singer from the clubby confines of New York's Algonquin Hotel to St. Patrick's Cathedral to Shea Stadium, where he sang the national anthem for the New York Mets during the team's 2000 playoff games. The son of a tradition that celebrates singing and musicmaking, he is proud of his popularity with Italian-American audiences and of his relationship with the Order of the Sons of Italy and the National Italian American Foundation. Winner of the Italian Charities' Christopher Columbus Award, the Lione de San Marco Award for opera, Il Cuore di Carabinieri and the Sergio Franchi Foundation Award, Amante has serenaded audiences at a wide range of cultural and charitable events, and he has been featured on NBC's coverage of New York's Columbus Day parade and on the soundtrack of the film While My Pretty One Sleeps.

"Whether I'm singing for a party of 10 or an audience of 10,000," Singer says, "it's always the same - singing is like a prayer. I love being the tenor in the opera, but it's a very small world. I want to share this beautiful music with everyone."