Source: David Colker, Los Angeles Times ( Free Registration )

The London representative of the Pavarotti estate prepared me for the shocking news that I was an heir. “This may sound strange and unbelievable to you,” he wrote.

But it didn’t sound so strange to Brian David Delany, a singer and actor in New York who got the same e-mail in January. In 1986, Delany was a sales clerk at a Sam Goody record shop when Pavarotti visited for an autograph session. “He was wonderful to me,” said Delany, who was assigned to assist the opera great. “He said for me to keep on practicing my vocals.”

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