Matt Tolentino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Matt Tolentino

musician

Date of Birth: 10-May-1985

Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, United States

Profession: musician

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Matt Tolentino (born May 10, 1985) is a Dallas, Texas musician and bandleader specializing in the live performance and preservation of pre-swing music, with a focus on American popular songs from 1920 to 1935.
Tolentino sings and plays music from "between the World Wars" regularly at numerous Dallas venues as a solo (accordion) act, as leader of a four-piece ensemble called The Matt Tolentino Band, as leader of a seven-piece polka band called The Royal Klobasneks, and most notably as leader of a full eighteen-piece orchestra called The Singapore Slingers, which has been named the "Best Pre-Swing Jazz Orchestra" and the "coolest, quirkiest, retro jazz group" in Dallas.Tolentino's fascination with jazz-age music began at age 8, when a neighbor gave him a cassette tape recording of the Coffee Club Orchestra (as featured on radio's A Prairie Home Companion).
By age 16, his devotion to music was such that he asked his parents to help him buy a used accordion instead of a used car.
He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 2003.
A musical autodidact, Tolentino sings lead vocals and plays many instruments, including clarinet, tuba, bass saxophone, ukulele, banjo, piano, and accordion.