Bobby Farrell

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Acting · San Nicolaas, Aruba, Antillas Neerlandesas

Roberto Alfonso Farrell (6 October 1949 – 30 December 2010) was an Aruban dancer, visual performer, singer and DJ. He was a member of the 1970s and 1980s disco group Boney M. Farrell was born and raised on the Caribbean island of Aruba in the Dutch colony of Curaçao and Dependencies (later known as the Netherlands Antilles). He left after having finished school at age 15 and was a sailor for two…

Known for

• La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président — Self (archive footage)2022
• Sheila, toutes ces vies-là — Self (archive footage)2022
• Boney M. - Diamonds — Self2015
• Die ultimative Chartshow — Self2003
• Star Factory2002
• ZDF-Kultnacht — Self (archive footage)2002
• Boney M: The Greatest Hits — Self2001
• Old Songs About the Main Thing 3 — Cameo - Boney M.1998
• Sacrée soirée — Self - Boney M.1987
• Champs-Elysées — Self - Boney M.1982

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Netherlands

Active from

1949

Active to

2010

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

5,819

Total plays

26,224

Roberto "Bobby" Alfonso Farrell (6 October 1949 Aruba, Netherlands Antilles – 30 December 2010 Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a dancer and performer. He is best known as the male member of the successful 70s pop and disco group Boney M. which gained popularity from 1975 on and he stayed active until his death in 2010. Farrell left Aruba at age 15 to become a sailor. He lived in Norway and the Netherlands before moving to Germany. There, he worked mostly as a DJ when producer Frank Farian spotted

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Productive Efficiency

   · 1957 · cited 9,279x

2. Spatial reconstruction of single-cell gene expression data

   · 2015 · cited 6,788x

3. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,740x

4. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,604x

5. Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation

   · 2015 · cited 5,976x

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Key facts

Born

( 1949-10-06 ) 6 October 1949, San Nicolaas , Aruba

Died

30 December 2010 (2010-12-30) (aged 61), Saint Petersburg , Russia

Occupations

Dancer singer DJ

Years active

1975–2010

Spouse

Jasmina Shaban ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1981 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1995 ) ​

Formerly of

Boney M.

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Wikidata facts

Image

Boney M Bobby Farrell 2006.jpg

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