At age 16 he went alone on a plane with a suitcase full of songs and $100 borrowed.
Everyone told him he was too young to dream big.
That boy was called Paul Anka.
And within a few years, he would have written two of the most famous songs in the history of music.
It was 1957.
Paul lived in Ottawa, Canada, and spent hours at the piano composing.
Like so many teenagers, he also had an impossible love.
His name was Diana Ayoub.
She was a girl in her neighborhood, older than him, who stole his heart.
Paul turned those feelings into a song.
He simply called it "Diana."
Convinced it was his chance, he borrowed $100 from an uncle, recorded an audition and jumped the school to fly to New York.
He turned for record companies knocking door to door.
Most of them rejected him.
For many producers it was unthinkable that such a young boy could write an international success.
Then came the decisive meeting.
Don Costa, producer of ABC-Paramount, granted him a few minutes.
They were enough.
In July 1957 *Diana* went out to the shops.
The track exploded all over the world.
He sold millions of copies, captured international charts and turned a Canadian teenager into one of the new stars of music.
But that was just the first page of his story.
In the late 1960s, Paul Anka met Frank Sinatra.
The singer confided him to feel close to the sunset of his career.
He even thought he'd retire.
Those words were imprinted in Anka's mind.
Shortly thereafter he acquired the rights of a French song entitled *Comme d'habitude*.
During a flight he imagined Sinatra himself to tell his life.
He wrote the text almost jet.
He was born like this.
When Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1969, the song became one of the symbols of his career and one of the most famous interpretations of the twentieth century.
It is curious to think that everything originated from a boy in love and from a door that no one wanted to open.
If Paul Anka stopped in front of the first waste. .
The world would probably never listen to *Diana*.
And maybe not *My Way*.
Sometimes just one person willing to listen to you to change the course of a lifetime.
And sometimes, even the history of music.