Rocky Roberts

Rocky Roberts born Charles Roberts Tanner August 23 1940 Rome January 13 2005 was an Americanborn 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 countryoriented musician named Doug Fowlkes whose band the Airdales USnavy 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 JuanlesPins 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 TBird 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 TBird 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 37 million copies and won the Festivalbar The songs 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 Bacalovwritten 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 CCBYSA 30