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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
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