“Yoko and I were watching and we loved it.” A musical talent at eight-years-oldīorn in Brooklyn, New York in 1939, Sedaka was only eight-years-old when he began to attend the Juilliard School of Music on a piano scholarship. “I thought the song was beautiful,” Lennon told Sedaka after watching him perform it on TV. authorities over his application for permanent residence in America. Sedaka dedicated “The Immigrant” to John Lennon, who at the time was mired in a bitter dispute with U.S. Recent events along the U.S.-Mexican border have revealed how easy it still is for restrictionists and xenophobes to gain the upper hand, and to enact hard-line policies that inflict misery on people drawn to the U.S. His song “The Immigrant” was a Top 30 hit when he released it in 1975, but today it seems even more relevant, as debates rage in the United States over immigration, repatriation and racism. Sedaka’s wholesome image and infectious cheerfulness are easy to slight and have too often belied an extraordinary career. Others are better known in cover versions by artists ranging from Elvis Presley to Ariana Grande. Neil Sedaka is an American singer-songwriter who has written dozens of hit songs.
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