

Having always had an interest in music himself, Pesci embarked on a career as a singer in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Valli and DeVito formed The Four Seasons after Pesci introduced them to the and songwriter Bob Gaudio, who would later write several of the group's best known songs.

As a teenager he was friends with the singers Frankie Valli and Tom DeVito, and played a small role in the later formation of their band The Four Seasons. Pesci was born into a working class Italian-American family in Newark, New Jersey, and was raised in Belleville.

Joe Pesci was an American actor who was best known for playing loose-cannon tough guys and cold-hearted mobsters in a string of critically-acclaimed films, including "Raging Bull" (1980), "Goodfellas" (1990), and "Casino" (1995).
