One of the greatest and most popular songwriters in American musical history,
Cole Porter's vast catalogue includes classic songs like Anything Goes, High
Society, Always True To You (In My Fashion) and You're The Top, as well as a
string of successful musicals and film scores. Born into a wealthy Baptist
family in Indiana, he learned to play violin at the age of six and the piano at
eight and wrote his first operetta with his mother at ten. He studied at both
Yale University and Harvard Law School before abandoning a legal career to
devote himself to music, achieving his first s...