FROM POVERTY TO STARDOM
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Find out how one boy sung his way from poverty to center stage at the Metropolitan Opera.
Aired: 12/12/16
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Clip | 5m 59s
Find out how one boy sung his way from poverty to center stage at the Metropolitan Opera.
Aired: 12/12/16
Rating: NR
FROM POVERTY TO STARDOM
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