Ex-Trucker On the Road — As Sought-After Tenor

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SANTA FE, N.M. -- To hear Carl Tanner tell it, there's nothing out of the ordinary about his trajectory to opera: from music student to truck driver to bounty hunter to globe-trotting tenor.

After all, the big, burly guy with Virginia in his voice and a down-home demeanor always sang -- to the country station on his dad's car radio . . . with the chorus in high school, where he wrestled and played football . . . in his 18-wheeler, "Tosca" blaring from the cab.

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Ex-Trucker On the Road — As Sought-After Tenor

As a child, "I knew that I had this ability to go, 'Waaaaaa' -- and really well," recalled Tanner, his voice suddenly soaring above the lunch-crowd babble on th...

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