Frankie Valli: How Stapes Surgery Saved His Career

Abstract:

Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, better known by his stage name Frankie Valli, is an American singer who started his career as the front man of The Four Seasons. This pop group became one of the biggest pop acts of the 1960s. Valli is known for his unusually powerful lead falsetto voice. In the late 1960s, he developed otosclerosis. The hearing loss got so bad that Frankie could not hear himself on stage. He toured the national rounds of hearing specialists. And over and over again, he was told, “Can’t help”. The success of his group suffered. Finally, stapes surgery was performed, and this restored his hearing and brought the singer back to entertain us for a lifetime! Frankie Valli is now 89 and still touring!