Terry Fator was born in the year 1965 and he is a singer, comedian, impressionist and ventriloquist. He was born in Texas State in the city of Dallas. He is able to do over 100 Ventriloquial impersonations and he uses 16 puppets in the acts. He was a winner for season two for America’s Got Talent and he got a million dollar as a prize. After a year, he was given the job to be a headliner for The Mirage Hotel and for Casino Las Vegas, in Nevada.


Terry Fator was born in the year 1965, in the city of Dallas in Taxas and he is the son to Jephtha Wesley and his mother is Marie Fator Slight. He has older brother called Jephtha jr and a younger sister called Deborah. He is the second cousin to Chris Slight who was the finalist for the American Idol for the season six. In his audio commentary called Terry Fator: Live From Las Vegas, he said that he went to College of Liberty University in Virginia. He started with his ventriloquism career in fifth game. When he was looking for the book to do an assignment about Valentine’s Day, he came to a book about ventriloquism which was called Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit written by Paul Winchell. He checked out this book and begun to learn about the ventriloquism. After some week, he bought a Willie Talk Dummy in Sears and he got a 25 prize when he performed in the Church Picnic. He got the first ventriloquism dummy at the age of 10 years and during the early years, he was entertaining the family with friends using ventriloquism and then he was doing the impersonation of actors and singers. His mother saved up money for three years and he bought the first puppet when he was at the age of 18. Fator said that he had to find out that he is able to impersonate the singers when he was practicing the ventriloquism when he was driving in the car.

Terry Fator started to tour when he was a lead singer for the show called Texas The Band and he was at the age of 23 years old. They did perform over 200 High School and middle class around Canada and United States and the average was 3 performances for each school. In the mid 1988, he was a lead singer for a show band called Texas The Band and he was incorporating his puppet performance.

Terry Fator got married to Melinda and she was following Texas The band often but he divorced her to marry Taylor Makakoa and then divorced the second time to marry Angie Flore. Most of his videos about his performance can be found on youtube. He has a net worth of 100 million dollars. The fans can get access to the seating chart of Mirage Theatre.

Last Modified: Apr 7, 2020


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