Frankie Avalon

Biography

Frankie Avalon is a former teen idol and American actor, singer born on September 18, 1940, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He rose to fame in the late 1950s with chart-topping hits like "Venus" and "Why," and later appeared in films such as the Beach Party series and Grease, where he sang the song "Beauty School Dropout." Avalon's music career spanned from 1958 to the late 1960s.