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Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888–September 22, 1989) was an Americancomposer and lyricist.

Born Israel Isidore Baline, in Tyumen, Siberia (or Mahilyow (Mogilev), Belarus ?), he emigrated to the United States in 1893 with the rest of his family.

Following the death of his father in 1896, Irving found himself having to work to survive. He did various street jobs including selling newspapers and busking.

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The harsh economic reality of having to work or starve was to have a lasting effect on the way Berlin treated money. In 1911 the song 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' launched a musical career that would span over a thousand songs including many hit Broadwaymusicals.

Irving Berlin's first credited song lyrics were for 'Marie from Sunny Italy' in 1907, the year he changed his name.

He was paid 37 cents for this song.

In 1917 during World War I, while he staged a musical revue Yip Yip Yaphank while at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York. The revue was a pa