Charlie Cannon

Charles Albert Cannon (September 11, 1911–August 14, 2003), a singer, theater performer and co-founder of Starlight Opera in San Diego, California, was born in the coastal town of San Quintín, Baja California, near Ensenada. Charlie Cannon was just 2½ 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. 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 3½ years in the U.S. Army during Second World War, and was stationed in the South Pacific. In 1945, Cannon, William Dean, Julius Leib and...