The family man and dog lover have been married to wife Natalie since and later became a manager. The couple has five children and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. After living in Ireland for a long time, the Whitteachers moved to the south of France in — due to the hot weather, of course. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
See also Philip Schofield smashed Pierce Morgan's book on waste disposal. See also Ross d'Or: Half of the theatrical nominees from Germany. Harding Hansen. It peaked at number two in the U. As he turned 40 in , Whittaker undertook his first U. From the late '70s into the early '80s, Whittaker continued to score minor chart entries in the U.
He also addressed his non-English-speaking audience by singing phonetically in other languages, releasing Mein Deutsches Album in West Germany in , for example. In , he scored a number one hit in West Germany with "Albany," and the same year he returned to Kenya for the first time in two decades, commemorating the occasion with the album and documentary In Kenya: A Musical Safari. He had toured the U.
In the late '70s, he had launched his own Tembo Records company tembo is the word for elephant in Swahili. Tembo licensed his recordings to Main Street Records in the U. Life comes full circle, sometimes in the strangest ways. When I left Kenya back in I knew it would be many years before I'd return; but not in my wildest dreams could I have conjured up the actual circumstances of my homecoming.
What an unforgettable experience that was, how wonderful once again to absorb the sights and sounds and smells of Africa, to see my parents, old friends, to wallow in the pleasures of the past. Nostalgia is like an anaesthetic: you experience no pain, only a beautiful haze. Anyway, when you grow older what matters to you is not the way it was, but the way you remember it. After the warmth and sun of Africa, returning to the cold and wet of a British spring brought me down to earth with a bump.
The film may have been 'in the can' but there was still a lot of cutting and editing to do and the recording of much important music. During the course of our filming in Kenya the media had shown a lot of interest and when we returned we were inundated with requests for film clips, stills and interviews. I agreed with Irene that it was a good idea to keep the interest running and so let her book me on a number of chat shows. One of these, I was told, featured the various hobbies of the stars; since mine was flying and since I used my own plane in my business the idea evolved for me to be filmed in flight; this would become the opening sequence of the show.
I would then go on to be interviewed. A good idea, I thought. It would be an easy show to do. I arranged therefore to fly into Northolt airport. On the appointed morning I waved goodbye to Natalie as she drove the kids off to school. From there she was going to our London office to do some work on the magazine we were then producing. She had heard the song while traveling to Canada.
The song broke down the barriers to success in America for Whittaker and opened up a vast new country for his music to explore. Germany, particularly, has been a highly successful market for Roger over the years. It all started back in when he undertook his first major concert tour of the country, following the success of "The Last Farewell". Record success, however, has established Whittaker's name in the country and hoisted him to superstardom.
His sings and records in the German language. Indeed, in , he was acclaimed as the country's most successful recording artist, singing in the German language, a distinction no other major international record star could claim. Roger admits to being unable to speak a word of German and records his songs phonetically. Children from all over the world were asked to submit lyrics and poems on the subject of promoting peace and understanding, the best of which Roger would put to music and record.
The contest attracted over one million entries from 57 countries. The song has been released worldwide with all proceeds raised by sales being donated to UNESCO's education for handicapped children programme. That year also finished on a note of extreme triumph when Roger received America's prestigious B'nai B'rith Humanitarian Award for his work with children. In , Roger was persuaded to make a movie in his native Kenya.
It was an ambitious project, and for six weeks the film cameras followed him throughout the East African country as Roger related the story of Kenya's history -the British colonial development and the rediscovery of his homeland - through his own unique words and music. Also in , he published his autobiography, So Far, So Good, co-written with his wife.
The 's have seen Roger continue to perform and record.
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