Frankie Valli’s teetotal life improves vocals

Frankie Valli puts his supple voice down to no drugs, no alcohol, and no sports.
The Four Seasons frontman is still performing at 82, more than 50 years after his band spawned hits like Walk Like A Man and Big Girls Don’t Cry. He has gigs coming up, such as part of BBC Proms in the Park at London’s Hyde Park on 10 September (16), and his strict lifestyle has ensured his vocals are as powerful as ever.
“You lose a note or two one way or another as you get older, but I don’t think it makes that big a difference – you can bring a song down half a tone, make adjustments. I don’t drink, I don’t do drugs,” he listed to Britain’s The Telegraph. “I don’t play golf, I don’t play tennis, I don’t hike, I don’t ski. I like to sing. I’ve been doing it my whole life. What else am I going to do?”
He previously revealed he does most of singing in the shower during his spare time and he loves the sound it creates so much that he once had a company come into his bathroom to take a sample of the echo.
Frankie has been passionate about music from a young age, though he insists a lot of hard work and effort went into perfecting his recognisable, high-pitched vocals.
“No one starts out terrific. It’s like anything else, it takes a lot of practice and you have to be dedicated,” he recalled. “I knew people who were going to music schools and art schools and dance schools, but I couldn’t afford to go to no school, so the possibilities were almost no possibilities at all. And that was my motivation.”