Neil Sedaka is born on March 13 in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a taxi driver and a Sephardic Jew of Lebanese descent. His mother Eleanor (née Appel), was an Ashkenazi Jew of Polish-Russian descent. He grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brighton Beach.
The Year 1939
Neil Sedaka is born on March 13 in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a taxi driver and a Sephardic Jew of Lebanese descent. His mother Eleanor (née Appel), was an Ashkenazi Jew of Polish-Russian descent. He grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brighton Beach.