Bobby Darin
Traditional pop music, Musical Artist
1936 – 1973
Who was Bobby Darin?
Bobby Darin was an American singer, songwriter, and actor of film and television. He performed in a range of music genres, including pop, rock'n'roll, folk, and country.
He started as a songwriter for Connie Francis, and recorded his own first million-seller "Splish Splash" in 1958. This was followed by "Dream Lover", "Mack the Knife", and "Beyond the Sea", which brought him world fame. In 1962, he won a Golden Globe for his first film Come September, co-starring his first wife, Sandra Dee.
Throughout the 1960s, he became more politically active and worked on Robert Kennedy's Democratic presidential campaign. He was present on the night of June 4/5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles at the time of Kennedy's assassination. The same year, he discovered that he had been brought up by his grandparents, not his parents, and that the girl he thought was his sister was actually his mother. These events deeply affected Darin and sent him into a long period of seclusion.
Although he made a successful television comeback, his health was beginning to fail, as he had always expected, following bouts of rheumatic fever in childhood.
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- Born
- May 14, 1936
The Bronx - Also known as
- Darin, Bobby
- Bobbie Darin
- Bobby Daren
- Bobby Darrin
- Walden Robert Cassotto
- bobby_darin
- Bobby
- Bob Darin
- Robert Darin
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Sandra Dee
(1960/12/01 - 1967/03/07) - Andrea Joy Yeager
(1973/06/26 - 1973/10/24)
- Sandra Dee
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- The Bronx High School of Science
- Hunter College
- Lived in
- The Bronx
- Died
- Dec 20, 1973
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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