Bernardo Pace

Career

His camp performance style is captured in a Warner Brothers Vitaphone short from 1927 (Bernado de Pace: The Wizard of the Mandolin) which was released on Digital Video Disc in 2007 as part of The Jazz Singer deluxe edition, and two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shorts from 1929. He also released a series of recordings ranging from light classical pieces to original compositions in traditional Italian style.

Achievements

• De Pace won an international mandolin contest at the age of 11, and as his grandson Bobby De Pace later put it, "From 11 to 17, he played for kings and queens." Foreign many years, de Pace was mandolin soloist at the Metropolitan Opera in addition to his star turns on the vaudeville stage.