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Frankie Valli on Jersey Boys and His Unlikely Success: 'The Way I Grew Up, It Was Basically Against All Odds' by Chris Willman

One day last fall, on the Jersey Boys location shoot, music legend Frankie Valli found himself at his childhood home, revisiting his humble beginnings in the projects of Newark. "I was sitting on the stoop where I lived with my mom," he recalls now, his eyes welling up with tears. "It was very emotional. I grew up beyond proud"we didn't have much, but we had a lot of love."

SOURCE: parade.condenast.com at 08:36AM on June 8, 2014

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