You might think that the age of 60 might be a little late to release one’s debut recording until you hear the story behind the dream. Dream Maker, Heartbreaker – Sam Broverman Sings Johnny Mercer represents a lifetime of singing for the Winnipeg-born entertainer who, over 30 years ago put his singing career on hold to become a professor of Actuarial Mathematics at the University of Toronto.
   Not your typical debut, Broverman pays tribute to one of the original American pop legends and adds his own sense of polish to these classics, revealing a talent whose time is nigh. Backed by a Who’s Who of Toronto-based jazz and blues musicians, including Kevin Turcotte, George Koller, Lenny Solomon, Chris and Ken Whiteley, Broverman weaves an authentic spell of his own as he unleashes 12 classic performances as if he¹s been doing it all his life. In fact, he has.
   From songs like “Goody Goody”,”Laura” and “In The Cool, Cool, Cool o the Evening”, a strong sense of sophistication blends with the romance of the era together with an element of cool that proves ageless across such classic material as fresh today in Broverman’s care as it was in its original era.
   As Broverman sings Mercer’s feel-good “I’m Old-Fashioned” atop George Koller’s elegant bass line and a bank of strummed guitars, there’s no question there’s plenty of room in today’s musical vocabulary for music that ‘accentuates the positive’, recalling the greats like Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé and Johnny Hartman.