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Rocky Roberts

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Rocky Roberts (born Charles Roberts, Tanner, August 23, 1940 – Rome, January 13, 2005) was an American-born Italian rhythm and blues singer.

Born in Alabama, Roberts served in the United States Navy and was a Navy champion boxer. He first got interested in singing after listening to a country-oriented musician named Doug Fowlkes, whose band the Airdales (US-navy slang for Navy pilots) used to perform on the ship where Roberts was stationed. Fowlkes, impressed by Roberts' voice, eventually agreed to let him sit in with the band.

Roberts won a singing competition while on shore leave in Juan-les-Pins, France, and chose to stay in Europe after retiring from the Navy in 1962.

Roberts had a stint in France performing at ORTF television show Les raisins verts, and achieved some success with an early version of "T-Bird" and "Monkiss".

In 1965 Renzo Arbore and Gianni Boncompagni invited Roberts to Rome to record the theme of their Radio Show, Bandiera Gialla. The song, "T-Bird", was a hit in the Italian charts and Roberts settled in Rome.

In 1967, Roberts had a major Italian hit, "Stasera Mi Butto", which sold 3.7 million copies and won the Festivalbar. The song's success led to a 1967 motion picture of the same title, starring Roberts. He appeared subsequently in several other Italian films.

He was known for always wearing dark sunglasses.

Roberts sang the Luis Bacalov-written theme song from the 1966 film, Django. Quentin Tarantino reused the recording as the opening theme for his 2012 film Django Unchained.

He died of lung cancer in Rome in 2005 at the age of 64.

Source: Article "Rocky Roberts" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Rocky Roberts, nom de scène de Charles Roberts, né à le 23 août 1941 à Tanner (Alabama), est un chanteur italien d'origine américaine de country et de rhythm and blues.

Avant d’être connu du public, il commence par servir dans United States Navy et devient champion de boxe de l’ US Navy champion. Il s’intéresse d’abord à la chanson country & western avec le musicien Doug Fowlkes, qui a un groupe nommé les Airdales (argot des pilotes de l’US Navy).

Il gagne un concours à Juan-les-Pins en France, signe un contrat avec Eddie Barclay. Ce sera la sortie du LP avec The T-Bird énorme succès dans les night-clubs. De ce fait, il choisit de rester en Europe à sa retraite de l’US Navy. En 1967, il obtient un très grand succès avec la chanson en italien Stasera Mi Butto, qui se vend à 3,7 millions d’exemplaires et gagne le Festivalbar. La chanson est reprise comme titre d’un film en 1967, avec Rocky Roberts en vedette. Il apparait alors dans plusieurs films italiens.

Il était réputé pour toujours porter des lunettes de soleil.

En 1966, il chante la chanson du générique du film Django, écrite et composée par Luis Bacalov et qui sera reprise en 2012 comme thème du film Django Unchained de Quentin Tarantino.

Rocky Roberts décède à l’âge de 63 ans en 2005 à Rome des suites d’un cancer des poumons.

Source: Article "Rocky Roberts" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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