{"id":20842,"date":"2026-03-16T14:49:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20842"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:49:54","slug":"legendary-singer-reveals-he-is-retiring-from-touring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20842","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Singer Reveals He Is Retiring From Touring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"63\" data-end=\"433\">Pop legend <strong data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"91\">Johnny Mathis<\/strong>, 89, announced he will retire from performing this summer due to age and memory decline. He will complete his <strong data-start=\"202\" data-end=\"227\">Voice of Romance Tour<\/strong> through spring, with his final concert on <strong data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"280\">May 18<\/strong> at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in New Jersey. Shows from June 2025 onward are canceled, with refunds available through original purchase points.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"435\" data-end=\"663\">Born in <strong data-start=\"443\" data-end=\"451\">1935<\/strong> in Texas and raised in San Francisco, Mathis became famous in the 1950s with hits like <em data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"552\">Chances Are<\/em> and <em data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"581\">It\u2019s Not for Me to Say<\/em>. His <em data-start=\"587\" data-end=\"611\">Johnny\u2019s Greatest Hits<\/em> spent a record 490 weeks on the Billboard charts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"1002\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Over six decades, Mathis released <strong data-start=\"699\" data-end=\"713\">70+ albums<\/strong>, sold <strong data-start=\"720\" data-end=\"743\">350 million records<\/strong>, and earned the nickname \u201cThe Voice of Romance\u201d for classics like <em data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"817\">Misty<\/em> and <em data-start=\"822\" data-end=\"844\">The Twelfth of Never<\/em>. He has received a <strong data-start=\"864\" data-end=\"901\">Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award<\/strong>, a <strong data-start=\"905\" data-end=\"936\">Hollywood Walk of Fame star<\/strong>, and induction into the <strong data-start=\"961\" data-end=\"1001\">Great American Songbook Hall of Fame<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1F1X8bQEyrU?si=rq8Sgl2B3rM7GF_T\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop legend Johnny Mathis, 89, announced he will retire from performing this summer due to age and memory decline. He will complete his Voice of Romance Tour through spring, with his final concert on May 18 at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in New Jersey. Shows from June 2025 onward are canceled, with refunds available&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20842\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Legendary Singer Reveals He Is Retiring From Touring!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20844,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842\/revisions\/20844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}