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Biography
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Al Pierson
Real name: Albert Theodore Pizzamiglio
Effective period / Period of releases: 1978
American big band conductor and member of the Ballroom Dancer's Hall of Fame. He is best known as the conductor for Al Pierson's Big Band "U.S.A.". In 1989, he revived Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians big band orchestra. In 1998, he was Honored as Ambassador of Music for the World by Illinois State University.