Roger Cicero: The playboy romantics – ZEIT ONLINE

It is said that we all hold a lifetime fixed to the music that we heard while we discovered the world for us. While we piled loss, free addition, with the friends without parents. For like we remember the awakening spirit that powered us in the days of our late teens – and usually it has a melody.

Who lived

early noughties in Hamburg and studied, something with music, who hovered on the Reeperbahn, in the Poodle, verdigris, Angie’s Nightclub, which could not miss Roger Cicero. Whether in small quartet in plush atmosphere or the great big band collective of Soulounge, he was always somewhere there. It was the time when Robbie Williams and George Michael with jazz standards enjoyed great success. Cicero was the fueled by Acid Jazz the Mojo Club audience that also North German Soul.

At that time did you start thinking about whether skin color can sing. In this context, Roger Cicero was the keyboard under the Votes: Actually predominantly white, but only by the many black halftones really great. This unassuming type put Stevie Wonder Sir Duke or Superstition out, as if it were a walk. His improvisations sparkled with energy, austrainiert to the last melisma.

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had learned Cicero that. Even as gifted student under Peter Herbolzheimer and during the Jazz studies in Hilversum In the Hamburg Jamszene him Transferred his impressive technique for singers king. When they heard that he also give private lessons, anxious to be ever shy the phone number. Cicero had figured something from Jazz, that was clear. And if it was just the craft; Piano, voice, guitar, songwriting – that’s more than many other strikes have who live on the radio.

That music just may be working, had the father Eugen Cicero, who had come as a respected jazz pianist from Romania, passed on to the little Roger. One stepped up on, played gig to gig, got by with studio sessions, took on boards because they liked an even until eventually opened something bigger. That moment came for Roger Cicero in 2006, when he was already 36 years old and his hair thinning. He got a flat cap and the role of jazz Robbies of the Elbe missed. Big Band Sound with German lyrics, a bit retro glamor, an ordinary bag Alltagsmachismo that Party promiscuity of Mambo No. 5 and the man about romance, with Michy Reinckes Taxi to Paris was 20 years previously stuck in the ditch.

The recipe worked perfectly. The album Männersachen enthusiastic especially women who want their husbands red roses, a designer handbag and a clean tiled living room. Of which it is supposed to be many. “Take off your shoes, take out the trash …” and triple platinum, selling 610,000 units. In it Roger Cicero could represent the German heart the Euro Vision Song Contest, Women The Spring , well, 19th place, the message came probably not everywhere. Carry on, ride the wave. Respectively , 2007, after all, Triple Gold. Artgerecht , 2009 platinum. At this moment, , 2011 Gold. Presumably Til-Schweiger-Germany and Roger Cicero Germany for a while congruent. This has always been excellent Pophandwerk, maybe a little too well thought out, but vocally as clean and sparkling as the beads in a decorative sand on the windowsill. Roger Cicero knew he had to return to real jazz under the carpet.

Jazz Music – Roger Cicero is dead The singer and musician Roger Cicero died unexpectedly at the age of 45 years. According to his management he died on Thursday at a stroke.

He has worked hard and made to compensate for much yoga, have a son, later of mother isolated. Then it was quiet around him, his perspective somewhat lebensklüger that success had passed its zenith, the felt he, the wild years were over. 2014 published Whatever comes , on the song If it would come to an end tomorrow ‘. The sound poptimistisch, happily gurgling, a typical car radio song. Yet there sings a man who has witnessed how his father died at 57 of a stroke, has an idea of ​​how transient existence. In an interview he said at the time: “It can very quickly come to an end I think it takes such a radical idea to be aware of any case I need them to completely let me in on the lives and every day to tell me.. : ‘No, do not wait to do now’ “

In the fall of 2015 had Roger Cicero take a break because of a protracted virus infection. On March 24, he died of a stroke at the age of 45 years.