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An interior home painter by trade returns to love of portrait
0 Comments | Palm Beach Post, Jun 3, 2010 | by SCOTT EYMAN
When he was a boy, Carmine Cangero wanted to be a painter. At the age of 68, he’s finally made it.
Born in Sturno, 100 miles northeast of Naples, Italy, Cangero was drawing by the time he was 4 or 5 — “I was your run-of-the-mill child prodigy,” he says with a chuckle — and was accepted into the Accademia del Bella Arte in Florence.
But there was a problem. His father was a traveling musician with big bands and orchestras across Italy. In the off-season he had a barber shop, and the father insisted that his son learn a trade. So this firstborn son of a barber also became a barber.
Arriving in America in 1961 at the age of 19, Cangero went to work as a barber in Brooklyn. “In those days, a barber could make $6,000 to $8,000 a year.” He had his own shop in Glen Head, Long Island, while moonlighting as an interior house painter.
Cangero came to Florida in 1994 and focused solely on interior painting, doing more than 100 homes in the Bellagio development alone. But two -years ago, after a hip replacement, he began dabbling in oils again
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