NINO TEMPO AND APRIL STEVENS
Those LoTempio kids from Niagara Falls were a gift to the music world. As their careers progressed, the two traveled separate routes while frequently crossing paths; slyly inspired at their best or curiously interesting on any given day, Carol LoTempio and her brother Antonino reached a personal pinnacle of popularity in late 1963 after quite a few years as performers. "Deep Purple," the song that secured their place in history, was itself a ripe-for-reworking relic, a composition stretching back more than three decades. As Nino Tempo and April Stevens, stage names chosen years earlier, they became chart-topping hitmakers, Grammy award winners...a peerless pop culture pair. Brother "Nino" had a sharp rhythmic sense from the get-go; he's often recounted a story of attending a Benny Goodman concert in Buffalo, New York with ... MORE ››
