The song has the number 13 on his CD “Whatever comes”. It is a bitter ballad about a father who has moved out of home and now brings in the old apartment his child to bed. “I hold you tight, until you can sleep,” Roger Cicero sings, which processes its own failed Familientraum here. “Just please do not ask where I still walk”. Strings weave a dark soundscape, it sounds lonely piano. Actually, this musical-like number grauslicher Kitsch would be, but Cicero contrition is so believable that it is the real heart Strangler.
Since March 24, Roger Cicero seven year-old son Louis has no father. Because the age of only 45 years, the singer has died, as until now has been known. Successful Entertainer stood immediately before the start of a sold-out tour and had completed about in recent weeks, a lot of promotion and TV dates. After the performance on March 18 at the Bayerischer Rundfunk but suddenly occurred troubling neurological symptoms, the singer is hospitalized, where his condition deteriorated inexorably. Without having regained consciousness, Roger Cicero died on Holy Thursday at the consequences of cerebral infarction . Exactly the same diagnosis the doctors were willing to 1997 put the death of his father, the jazz pianist Eugen Cicero.
the age of eleven already on stage
the singer seemed just returned from a” recovered acute fatigue syndrome with suspected myocarditis “, which had forced him last November to cancel all dates up to the end. The then interrupted tour in honor of the 100th anniversary of Frank Sinatra should be continued on 7 April. Intensive singer had prepared the tribute to Sinatra, with whom he wanted to return to two smart pop albums on familiar territory, to jazz and swing, the genres with which he musically grew up.
age of eleven Steppke allowed the 1970-born Berliner occur in the opening act of diseuse Helen Vita, with 16 accompanied him the Rias -Tanzorchester in his first TV appearance. After leaving school, he went first to the Hohner Conservatory in Trossingen, then studied until 1996 Jazz singing at the Amsterdam School for the Arts in Hilversum. 2003, in the year in which he founded his Roger Cicero Quartet, he could debut also at the famous Jazz Festival in Montreux. A wide audience is his name since 2007 a term, when he won with the song “The Spring Women” the German national final for Euro Vision Song Contest. That Roger Cicero then finished the singing contest in Helsinki only 19 of 24 seats, did not harm his career.
He inspired with his positive style
With his big band he swam at the top with on the swing shaft. In 2006 published album “Männersachen” sold over one million copies. In 2009 he was first shown on the screen, in the film “Hilde” with Heike Makatsch in 2014 he was part of the cultural group that makes the Vox show “Sing My Song” a ratings hit.
with a polynuclear baritone who can sound sexy and casual at the same time, Roger Cicero enthusiastic fans. And with its positive nature. Between all the Jammerpop poets shone Cicero out as golden boy of the German music scene. Yet his optimism had never put on, especially not when he knew the great guys of his big band behind him. The made for the right jazzy Drive, controlled sunny sounds in and drove with crisp winds between when it was too sentimental. There was always somewhere a seemingly improvised executed tupftes Dubidu motif on the piano, a natural dreinquakende Hammond. And every song had at least one sentence that you wanted to remember.
No wonder that Roger Cicero’s 100th birthday of “old blue eyes Frank Sinatra was preparing to compete with the greatest crooners of all time. for six months he was rehearsing with his band the new arrangements of evergreens, which he had specially commissioned, completed various test appearances, for example, the Berlin Classic Open Air on the Gendarmenmarkt in summer 2015, before he left record early September at two concerts in Hamburg, the material for his Sinatra CD. in parallel he published yet another CD in quartet Instrumentation where he jazzy pop songs of Paul Simon, Nick Drake or James Taylor. Both albums have now become his legacy.
“Stunned and todtraurig”
His colleagues singer Xavier Naidoo and Annett Louisan appeared shaken by the news. “Stunned and todtraurig ! I miss you!”, Naidoo wrote on Facebook, “What a todtraurige message. Have a nice trip, dear Roger,” Louisan wrote. The trumpeter Till Bronner writes on Facebook, everyone was shocked. “ His work was far from done and his talent so desperately needed in our world. You have gone much too early. I salute you, Roger.” The Hamburg Rapper Jan delay condolences on Twitter: “hamburger, hat wearers, prince-fan … dead .. am speechless and shocked”.
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