North End institution Angelo Cattaneo of Caffe dello Sport

Jan 28, 2014 1276

Angelo Cattaneo seems to have made all the right choices early in life — or a least the ones he sticks to.
His wife of 55 years, Rosita, to start with; his neighborhood, the North End of Boston, where he has been living no-stop since 1962; even the choir he sings in, the one at St. Leonard Church (formerly Sacred Heart, then forced to move after the parishes consolidation in the early 2000s) he joined a couple of months after moving here.

"I was walking down Hanover Street [the neighborhood's main thoroughfare] when I heard singing voices coming out of a church," he recalls in great detail. "I just entered and asked: 'Need an extra voice?' They said 'Yes', and here I am, still rehearsing and performing, 50 years later."

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Fonte: Bostoniano

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