Bobby Darin
Biography As Long as I'm Singin (1936–1956): Early Years Darin was born to a poor, working-class family in The Bronx, New York, and his Italian American father disappeared a few months before he was born at the height of the Great Depression. As a result, his mother (a Mayflower descendant) had to accept social assistance to take care of her infant son. It was not until he ...