Sonny Bono’s tumultuous life began in Detroit, Mich. on Feb. 16, 1935. His father, Santo Bono, had emigrated to the U.S. from Montelepre, Sicily. His mother, Jean, was a second-generation Italian forced by her parents to marry at fourteen. Salvatore Phillip Bono was the couple’s third child, and first boy. The family had settled inContinue reading “Sonny Bono left Inglewood High early to pursue an often-chaotic life in show business”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
