Wayne Newton

Wayne Newton is a singer and stage performer from the 1960s to the present He is of English Irish Scottish Welsh and German as well as Native American specifically Powhatan and Cherokee ancestry In the 1960s he was a very popular singer with a very clean cut youthful appearance with hits like Danke Schon However because he had a high pitched voice many joked wrongly that he was effeminate or even gay and Johnny Carson made Newton the butt of his jokes but when Newton threatened Carson he stopped telling the jokes In the 1970s he reinvented himself with a completely different image and became more successful than ever He has performed over 30000 solo shows in Las Vegas which has earned him the nicknamed of Mr Las Vegas He has also appeared in a few movies from the 1950s to the present usually in cameo roles as himself As of 2020 he is still alive at the age of 78