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Bobby Vee, born Robert Thomas Velline, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. Active from 1959 to 2012, he performed rock and pop music, primarily using his voice. He recorded for Liberty Records and released works such as *The Bobby Vee Collection 1959-62* and *Merry Christmas from Bobby Vee*. He wrote in English and was a native English speaker.
Vee was male and had four children. He was born in Fargo and died in Rogers in 2016 from natural causes. His death was caused by Alzheimer's disease, a medical condition he also suffered from. He is associated with tags including oldies, 60s, and male vocalists.
Synthesized by Vinony from 32 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- The Bobby Vee collection 1959-62
- Merry Christmas from Bobby Vee
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1943
- Active to
- 2016
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 340,802
- Total plays
- 2,124,960
Tags
Bobby Vee (born Robert Thomas Velline; April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016) was an American pop singer and teen idol in the early 1960s. According to Billboard, he had 38 American Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. Vee was born in Fargo, North Dakota, to Sydney Ronald Velline and Saima Cecilia Tapanila. His first single, "Suzie Baby", written by Vee in homage to Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue", was recorded in 1959 for Soma Records and later purchased by Liberty Records. <a href="http
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Fargo
- Place of death
- Rogers
- Occupation
- animator
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Liberty Records
- Official website
- www.bobbyvee.com
- Image
- Bobby Vee (1962).jpg
- Number of children
- 4
Show 13 more facts
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
- date of death
- 2016-10-24
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- Commons category
- Bobby Vee
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- birth name
- Robert Thomas Velline
- different from
- Bobby Vinton
- writing language
- English language
- end of work period
- 2012-00-00
- pseudonym
- Bobby Vee
- has works in the collection
- Eye Filmmuseum
- date of birth
- 1943-04-30
via Wikidata · CC0