Chan Romero · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Adventures with God
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1941-07-07
- Active to
- 2024-04-21
rock and roll
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11,287
- Total plays
- 36,426
Tags
rockabillyRock and Rollrock n rollAll50s
An American teenage latin rocker in the late 50s, Chan Romero (died April 2024) found a brief spell of popularity with his best known track "The Hippy Hippy Shake" on the Del-Fi label that was popular particularly in Australia and the UK, where many groups including The Beatles covered it. He was the first Latino to be inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Born Robert Lee Romero in Billings, Montana, on 7 July 1941, he started a band in the late 50s, and, at the urging of a local Montana
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Romero
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Billings
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- rock and roll
- Instrument
- guitar
- Image
- Chan Romero (cropped).jpg
Show 9 more facts
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- end of work period
- 1966-00-00
- date of birth
- 1941-07-07
- pseudonym
- Chan Romero
- birth name
- Robert Lee Romero
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- date of death
- 2024-04-21
- name in native language
- Chan Romero
- Commons category
- Chan Romero
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