Charles Albert Cannon (September , â€" August , ), a singer, theater
performer and co-founder of Starlight Opera in San Diego, California,
was born in the coastal town of San QuintÃn, Baja California, near
Ensenada.Charlie Cannon was just ½ when he performed for the first
time in the lobby of his father's Baja California hotel. While
attending San Diego High School, he sang in a boys' quartet and played
saxophone in the student band. In the s, he performed vaudeville-type
shows in Grossmont High School's auditorium for an El Cajon theater
group.He attended San Diego State College, where he met Art
Linkletter, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, and together
they wrote an operetta. Cannon served three-and-a-half years in the
U.S. Army during Second World War, and was stationed in the South
Pacific.
performer and co-founder of Starlight Opera in San Diego, California,
was born in the coastal town of San QuintÃn, Baja California, near
Ensenada.Charlie Cannon was just ½ when he performed for the first
time in the lobby of his father's Baja California hotel. While
attending San Diego High School, he sang in a boys' quartet and played
saxophone in the student band. In the s, he performed vaudeville-type
shows in Grossmont High School's auditorium for an El Cajon theater
group.He attended San Diego State College, where he met Art
Linkletter, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, and together
they wrote an operetta. Cannon served three-and-a-half years in the
U.S. Army during Second World War, and was stationed in the South
Pacific.
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