Real name: Charlie Roberts

Effective period / Period of releases: 1961 - 2000

American singer (Miami, Aug. 23, 1941 - † Rome, Jan.13, 2005), spent some time in the U.S. navy, was a welter weight championship boxer and got his first musical cudo's with the Airedales, recording in the U.S. and in France. In the second half of the sixties he moved to Italy where he recorded most of his songs (as a solo artist) and he was a guest in every other popular TV music show. His American accent didn't stop him from having a great hit with Stasera Mi Butto and he was well known for his energetic Italian language cover versions of Motown & Atlantic soul hits, live and on record.