Bertie Higgins anabadwa December 8, 1944 ku Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA.
Dzina lobadwa: Elbert Joseph "Bertie" Higgins.
Monga agogo-agogo ake aamuna a Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bertie Higgins ndi wolemba ndakatulo waluso, wobadwa nthano, woimba komanso woimba.
Ubwana Bertie Higgins
Joseph "Bertie" Higgins adabadwira ndikukulira mdera lokongola lachi Greek la Tarpon Springs. Waluntha wachikondi Joseph kuyambira ali mwana anali waluso kwambiri komanso nthawi yomweyo mwana wodziyimira pawokha.
Chifukwa cha ndalama zake zam'thumba, adagwira ntchito yosambira ngale, yomwe si ntchito yachilendo ku Florida. Kudabwa ndi msinkhu wa achinyamata osambira.
Kwa nthawi yoyamba pa siteji, Joseph wa zaka 12 anaonekera mu mawonekedwe a "ventriloquist". Anapambana mphoto yapamwamba pawonetsero ya talente ya m'deralo ndipo anakhala wokondedwa m'maphwando a sukulu ndi makalabu.
Koma patatha zaka ziwiri anayamba kuchita chidwi ndi nyimbo ndipo adapanga gulu lake la sukulu, akusewera rock ndi roll.
Nyimbo zake zanyimbo, thanthwe lake ndi chikondi m'paradaiso wotentha, wotentha komanso wachikondi monga mlengalenga ku Florida.
Ngwazi ya nyimbo zake nthawi zonse amayesa kumvetsetsa tanthauzo la moyo, kufufuza malingaliro achinsinsi, kumasula chinsinsi chachinsinsi cha mkazi yemwe amamukonda.
Nyimbo zodzaza ndi tanthauzo - umu ndi momwe mungatchulire mawu olembedwa ndi Higgins. Gululo linakhala lodziwika bwino, likusewera pa ma prom akusukulu, maphwando ndi magule.
Achinyamata a Bertie Higgins
Atamaliza sukulu ya sekondale, Bertie anapita ku koleji ku St. Petersburg, kukaphunzira utolankhani ndi luso lapamwamba, koma nyimbo zinali mumtima mwake. Adasiya ndipo adakhala woyimba ng'oma mu gulu la Tommy Rowe.
Gululo linayendera, omvera asanayambe "kutenthedwa" ndi ojambula monga: Rollings Stones, Tom Jones, Roy Orbison, Manfred Mann ndi ena.
Ntchito ya solo monga wojambula
Kutopa kwa maulendo ataliatali ndi chikhumbo chofuna kupanga polojekiti yake yoimba kunachititsa kuti Bertie achoke m'gululo ndikubwerera kwawo ku Florida.
Anayika ng'oma pa alumali, anatenga gitala ndikuyamba kupanga nyimbo, mawu. Inali nthaŵi yokhutiritsidwa ndi ufulu waumwini.
Olemba otchuka monga Bob Crew (The Four Seasons), Phil Gernhard (Lobo) ndi Felton Jarvis (Elvis) amasonyeza chidwi ndi nyimbo zake. Izi zinapangitsa kuti wolembayo adziwike komanso kuti zolemba zake zikhale zabwino. Bertie anakhala wotchuka ku America.
Panthawi imodzimodziyo, anakumana ndi Burt Reynolds (wojambula wotchuka komanso wotsogolera), yemwe adawona mu Higgins kuthekera kwa wojambula zithunzi ndikukhala mphunzitsi wake.
Atlanta
Mu 1980, Bertie adasamukira ku Atlanta ndipo adakumana ndi Sonny Limbaugh, yemwe anali wopanga gulu lanyimbo la Alabama ndipo adathandizira ntchito zamagulu ena angapo oimba.
Limbaugh adakonza msonkhano pakati pa Bertie ndi wofalitsa nyimbo Bill Lowry, yemwe Higgins adamudziwa kuyambira masiku ake ndi gulu la Tommy Rowe. Msonkhano wa utatu uwu unali watsoka, umayenera kuchitika.
Bertie panthawiyi anali akugwira ntchito yoimba nyimbo yonena za chikondi chomwe chinalephera. Adawonetsa zolembazo kwa Bill ndi Sonny. Adamuthandiza kuwongolera mawuwo, zomwe zidapangitsa kuti nyimbo yachikondi Key Largo.
Ndizosaneneka, koma kujambula kwa nyimboyi kunakanidwa kangapo ndi Kat Family Records, ndipo kupirira kokha kwa Bertie, Bill ndi Sonny kunathandizira kumasula nyimboyi mu 1981.
Wojambula wotchuka padziko lonse
Key Largo "adawomba" ma chart aku America, kufika pamwamba pa ma chart mu nthawi yochepa. Pokhala pa nambala 8 pagulu lomenyera dziko lonse, nyimboyi idadziwika padziko lonse lapansi. Zinali zopambana kwambiri! Bertie anali wotchuka kwambiri.
Nyimbo zotsatirazi zidakhalanso zotchuka, monga: Just Another Day in Paradise, Casablanca ndi Pirates and Poets. Casablanca inali nyimbo yopambana pa Asia-Pacific Song Festival (yofanana ndi Eurovision Song Contest) ndipo chimbalecho chinatsimikiziridwa ndi platinamu.
Bertie Higgins adakhala wotchuka padziko lonse lapansi usiku umodzi ndipo adasungabe nyenyezi yake mpaka lero.
Panopa
Kwa zaka zingapo zapitazi, Bertie wakhala akuyendayenda padziko lonse lapansi. Makonsati ake onse adagulitsidwa, adalandira ndemanga zabwino kuchokera kwa otsutsa nyimbo.
Dzina lake linalembedwa m’zilembo zagolide ku Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ku Cleveland ndi mu Music Hall of Fame ku Georgia.
Wochita bwino kwambiri, wolemba nyimbo komanso woyimba, ndiyenso wojambula bwino / wolemba mabuku komanso wosewera. Bertie ali ndi malo odyera opambana ku Florida Keys ndipo amalemba nyimbo ndi ndakatulo.
Wapanga makanema ambiri a pawayilesi, mawonetsero osiyanasiyana padziko lonse lapansi ndipo, ngakhale ali ndi zaka zolemekezeka, akupitilizabe kuitanidwa kuti ayende padziko lonse lapansi.
Higgins ndiwothandizira kwambiri mabungwe angapo achifundo mdziko muno - hospice, VFW, American Cancer Society, The Boys' and Girls' Clubs of America ndi ochepa chabe mwa mapulojekiti ake otchuka achifundo.
Nthawi zonse amachita ndi kutenga nawo mbali m'makonsati achifundo ndipo amatenga gawo ili la moyo wake mozama. Ntchito yomwe ikuchitika kunyumba kwawo ku Florida ndikuteteza mitundu ya mbalame zomwe zatsala pang'ono kutha, makamaka mtundu wapelican.
Iye wakhala akugwira ntchito yoteteza nyumba zoyendera magetsi ku Florida zomwe zikuwonongeka kwambiri. Anathandizira kubwezeretsedwa kwa mmodzi wa iwo pafupi ndi tauni yakwawo ya Tarpon Springs.
Woyimba-wolemba nyimbo womalizayu akupitiriza kulemba ndi kuimba za nyanja za turquoise, mchenga wa golide ndi zilumba zadzuwa monga momwe amatchulira mwachikondi kuti "trope rock."
