Dan W. Quinn (Created And Sang The Original Daisy Bell Song) TTS Computer AI Voice

Daniel W. Quinn was born in New York in 1860, Quinn never stated his exact age(all due to his vanity...). So according to one of his living descendants, the family moved to San Francisco around c.1865-67 and they lived there until the late-1870's, then back they went to New York. So he was not very well trained as a singer, as the only training he seemed to have had was when he was a boy in the local church choir. After his childhood, he still held on to the desire to perform and play the piano. Quinn married his wife of 55 years, Mary Jane Ritchie in 1883 and they went on to have five children. Here's a kind of odd thing, his youngest child, who was born in 1901 was named after Edison's beloved house pianist of the late 1890's Frank P. Banta, so his name was Frank Banta Quinn, what d'ye think of that?
Apparently to Quinn's letter's to Jim Walsh in the 1930's, Quinn first became a recording artist completely by accident in 1892, as he was just engaged to entertain a sort of board meeting in Hoboken, but one of the members brought one of these new-fangled phonographs to joke around and record some novelties. But to their surprise, Quinn's voices recorded rather well, even if they thought of it just as a joke to dare him to record something.
Not long after this "mistake", the boys who dared him recommended him to the few phonograph companies in the area.
He was an immediate hit.
The recording managers loved him, his dandyish personality, his piano playing, dedication to all kinds of music, and of course, his voice.
Even though his singing wasn't the best, it makes him more authentic as a slightly amateur singer. He was apparently a great sight-reader, and learned literally everything, whether he liked it or not.