NEW YORK — Singer Johnny Maestro, who performed the 1958 doo-wop hit “16 Candles” with The Crests and enjoyed a decades-long career with The Brooklyn Bridge, has died of cancer. He was 70. Les Cauchi, ...

Johnny Maestro, the golden-voiced singer behind The Crests' "Sixteen Candles" and The Brooklyn Bridge's "Worst That Could Happen," died Wednesday of cancer at his home in Cape Coral, Fla. He was 70.

On the night of Jan. 18, as some of doo-wop’s biggest stars paid tribute to singer Johnny Maestro at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, they knew something the fans did not: At that very moment, the lead ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Singer Johnny Maestro, who performed the 1958 doo-wop hit "16 Candles" with The Crests and enjoyed a decades-long career with The Brooklyn Bridge, has died of cancer. He was 70. Les ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Nearly every Staten Island girl who has come of age with a party at a catering hall can tip her tiara to the memory of Johnny Maestro, the doo-wop star from Midland Beach and ...

Johnny Maestro, lead singer on the Crests’ doo-wop evergreen “16 Candles” and co-founder of the ’60s vocal act the Brooklyn Bridge, died Wednesday in Florida of cancer. He was 70. Born John ...

Johnny Maestro, the golden-voiced singer behind The Crests' "Sixteen Candles" and The Brooklyn Bridge's "Worst That Could Happen," died Wednesday of cancer at his home in Cape Coral, Fla. He was 70.

NEW YORK — Singer Johnny Maestro, 70, of the rock-and-roll and doo-wop band The Brooklyn Bridge has died. Original band member Les Cauchi said Maestro died late Wednesday in Florida. He had been ...

NEW YORK - Singer Johnny Maestro, who performed the 1958 doo-wop hit "16 Candles" with The Crests and enjoyed a decades-long career with The Brooklyn Bridge, has died of cancer. He was 70. Les Cauchi, ...