Barry Manilow was born Barry Alan Pincus on June 17, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Edna Manilow and Harold Kelliher, a truck driver of Irish descent. Barry's mother made his father change his name to Pi… See more

In 1964, Manilow met Bro Herrod, a CBS director, who asked him to arrange some songs for a musical adaptation of the melodrama, The Drunkard. Instead, Manilow wrote an entire original score. Herrod use… See more

Manilow married his high-school sweetheart, Susan Deixler, in 1964. Manilow later stated that he was in love with his wife and that his passion for a music career, in addition to his lack of maturity, p… See more