Alec John is remembered on this site's own long-standing local record as a British operatic tenor said to have been born on 23 April 1898 in Cwmbran, Monmouthshire. According to that record and an accompanying reader comment, he performed on stages across Britain from the 1920s through the 1950s and sang regularly on BBC Radio, with his career said to have run until his death on the Isle of Wight in 1987.
We have not been able to independently verify these details. Extensive searches of Wikipedia, the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Welsh National Opera's own historical profiles of Welsh singers, and general opera-history sources found no corroborating record of an Alec John matching this description. It is possible he performed under a variant of this name, or that his career — while real and locally remembered — was not extensively documented in sources that are searchable today.
In keeping with our policy of honesty over embellishment, we present Alec John's entry here as an unverified but long-standing local claim rather than a confirmed biography. Anyone with primary source material — programme notes, BBC archive listings, or press cuttings — that could confirm or correct these details is warmly invited to get in touch.