Editing Johnny Gilbert (section)

==Early life and education ==
John Lewis Gilbert III<ref name="officialbio">{{Cite web|title=Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Johnny Gilbert...and More!|url=http://www.johnnygilbert.tv|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130113214248/http://www.johnnygilbert.tv/biography.html|archive-date=January 13, 2013|access-date=February 20, 2010|publisher=Johnny Gilbert official website}}</ref> was born on July 13,<ref name=officialbio/> 1928<ref name="keeps going at 92">{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/johnny-gilbert-voice-of-jeopardy-ebcc084a3c14780a0e8200a18c3b6a40|title=Johnny Gilbert, the voice of 'Jeopardy!', keeps going at 92|last=Elber|first=Lynn|publisher=Associated Press|date=June 3, 2021|accessdate=August 18, 2021}}</ref><ref name="The Washington Post">{{Cite news|date=March 10, 2020|title='Protect Alex Trebek at all costs': Live audiences banished from 'Jeopardy!' and 'Wheel of Fortune' tapings amid coronavirus fears|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/10/coronavirus-alex-trebek-jeopardy/|first=Katie|last=Shepherd}}</ref><ref name="NYTGilbert">{{Cite news|last=Jacobs|first=Julia|date=January 7, 2021|title=On Alex Trebek's Final 'Jeopardy!,' a Last Introduction From a Friend|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/arts/television/alex-trebek-jeopardy-johnny-gilbert.html|access-date=January 8, 2021}}</ref>  in [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]], Virginia. He began performing by singing as a boy in his hometown [[Lutheran Church]] choir.<ref name="Milwaukee Sentinel">{{Cite news |date=May 17, 1959 |title=Johnny Gilbert: Three Talents and Two Voices |page=2 |work=[[The Milwaukee Sentinel]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y2tQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UhAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5786,2918690&dq=johnny+gilbert&hl=en |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130902011544/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y2tQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UhAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5786,2918690&dq=johnny+gilbert&hl=en |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 2, 2013 }}</ref> Although his parents had never worked in the theatrical profession themselves, his grandmother had been a church singer.<ref name= officialbio/>

While he was still in high school, Gilbert decided to take up a professional singing career and learned from an opera teacher. He never sang opera independently, but was the regular vocalist with Shelly Harmon and His Orchestra, a group that toured the Virginia area.<ref name=officialbio/>