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What did your parents want you to be when you grew up?

Hopefully, you didn't listen to them.

Luciana Pavarotti's mother wanted him to become a banker, but Luciana wanted to sing

so he purposely defied his mother and instead became one of the most commercially successful

tenors of all time, giving his final performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Katie Perry was raised in an evangelical Christian family as the daughter of two pastors.

Katie's parents and their son's religion forbade co-ed dances, parties, and many pop culture

staples like movies and magazines.

Even after the success of selling 81 million singles worldwide, when her mother was asked

at an award show for her daughter how proud she was of her, she simply replied, we strongly

disagree with how she's been conducting herself and she knows how disappointed we are.

Ow!

Schmomm!

Although I think she got back at them when she married Russell Brand.

Edward Manet was the renowned French painter, was one of the pivotal figures in the transition

from realism to impressionism that influenced the future of all art.

But Manet's father, August, hoped that his son would climb the ranks within a career

in the Navy.

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