Guido Salmaggi Photo Gallery 
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Guido Salmaggi sings "The Star-Spangled Banner" for the Chicago White Sox game opener at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Fla., in May 1992.
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Cpl. Guido Salmaggi sings the national anthem to troops stationed in the Pacific on July 4, 1943. He was in the Army from 1941 to 1945.
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Salmaggi, pictured here in January 1944, was assigned to the Army Special Service entertainment section for the Pacific. He was stationed on the grounds of University of Hawai'i.
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Salmaggi hangs out with Joe DiMaggio, right, in the Army club house at University of Hawai'i in 1944.
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For 12 years, Salmaggi played The Boss, a mafioso character at the Hyatt Waikiki's restaurant and disco called Spats.
Advertiser library photo |
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Salmaggi was the honorary Italian vice consul to Hawai'i for 40 years.
Advertiser library photo • January 1970 |
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Admiral Chester W. Nimitz came to the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House in the fall of 1947 to see Salmaggi perform.
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Salmaggi sang at a Republican dinner at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in May 1968 and had a chance to meet former President Ronald Reagan, then-governor of California.
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Salmaggi sang for 10 presidents, including Gerald Ford.
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Salmaggi sang for former first lady Barbara Bush in 1990 at a luncheon she gave at the Hyatt Hotel in Sarasota, Fla.
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Salmaggi meets Secretary of State Colin Powell backstage at the Van Wezel Concert Hall in Saratoga, Fla.
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