The first song I remember hearing

Dean Martin – ‘That’s Amore’

“My dad was Bulgarian, my mum was Greek and they used to sing this together. Because it sounded like an Italian song, they could relate to it as well as that whole Rat Pack era – Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr.. I grew up in Hollywood, so it was very showbiz. When I was younger, we would be driving and some song would come on the radio. My mum would say, in her Greek accent, ‘That song [is] going to be a hit.’ I would think, ‘How do you know? You don’t know anything about pop music!’ Cut to a week later: that song’s at Number One.”