Charlie Calello

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Charlie Calello is an American, singer, composer, conductor and arranger, born in New York.

In the early 1960s Calello was a member of Frankie Valli's group The Four Seasons. In 1966 he became a staff arranger/producer at Columbia Records, leaving only two years later to become independent.

He has worked with such diverse artists as Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen, Laura Nyro, Barbra Streisand, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ray Charles, Gloria Estefan, Bobby Vinton, Barry Manilow and Juice Newton, and many others.

In 1992 he became principal arranger and assistant conductor of the Florida Symphonic Pops in Boca Raton. In 1999 he was inducted as a member of "The Four Seasons" into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.