Roger Cicero
{{Short description|German jazz and pop musician (1970–2016)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox musical artist
|name = Roger Cicero
|background = solo_singer
|image = ESC 2007 Germany - Roger Cicero - Frauen regieren die Welt.jpg
|caption = Cicero performing at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007
|birth_name = Roger Marcel Cicero Ciceu
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1970|7|6}}
|birth_place = West Berlin, West Germany
|origin =
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2016|3|24|1970|7|6}}
|death_place = Hamburg, Germany
|genre = Jazz, pop
|occupation = Musician, songwriter
|years_active = 2003–2016
|label = Starwatch Music
|associated_acts =
|website ={{url|roger-cicero.de}}
}}
Roger Marcel Cicero Ciceu (6 July 1970 – 24 March 2016) was a German jazz and pop musician.{{cite news|url=http://www.az-web.de/news/topnews-detail-az/1758249/Roger-Cicero-will-nicht-schludern|title=Roger Cicero will nicht schludern|last=Esser|first=Robert|date=20 July 2011|work=Aachener Zeitung|language=de|access-date=5 August 2011|archive-date=5 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005114004/http://www.az-web.de/news/topnews-detail-az/1758249/Roger-Cicero-will-nicht-schludern|url-status=dead}}
Biography
Roger Cicero was born in 1970 in Berlin to Romanian jazz pianist Eugen Cicero and dancer Lili Cziczeo.{{cite journal|last1=Kubitza|first1=Michael|title=Roger Cicero ist tot. The best has gone away...|url=http://www.br.de/nachrichten/roger-cicero-tot-100.html|website=Bayerischer Rundfunk|date=29 March 2016|access-date=30 March 2016|ref=BR|language=DE}}
Cicero represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki his song "Frauen regier'n die Welt" ("Women Rule the World"). He finished 19th.{{cite book|last=Barclay|first=Simon|title=Eurovision Song Contest – The Complete & Independent Guide 2010|date=17 June 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfuBF7fOnyoC&pg=PA161|access-date=6 August 2011|publisher=Simon Barclay|isbn=978-1-4457-8415-1|page=161}}
In 2014, he was one of the stars of the Vox television show "Sing meinen Song – Das Tauschkonzert" (Sing my song – the exchange concert) along with Xavier Naidoo, Sasha, Andreas Gabalier, Sandra Nasić and Gregor Meyle.{{Cite web|url=http://www.vox.de/cms/sendungen/sing-meinen-song-das-tauschkonzert.html|title = Sing meinen Song - das Tauschkonzert}}
In late 2014, Cicero fell ill with chronic fatigue syndrome (also called CFS or myalgic encephalomyelitis), which led to an acute case of myocarditis.{{cite web | url=https://www.dw.com/en/german-jazz-singer-roger-cicero-dies-aged-45/a-19147899 | title= German jazz singer Roger Cicero dies, aged 45 | publisher=Deutsche Welle | date=29 March 2016| access-date=21 July 2018}} On 24 March 2016, he died from a stroke;[http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/roger-cicero/ist-tot-45101578.bild.html Hirnschlag mit 45 Jahren: Roger Cicero ist tot], Bild, access date 29 March 2016{{cite web|url=https://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/rogercicero-103.html|title=Trauer um Jazz-Sänger: Roger Cicero ist tot |work=Tagesschau|access-date=29 March 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.focus.de/kultur/musik/hirnschlag-roger-cicero-ist-tot_id_5390239.html|title=Roger Cicero: Hirnschlag: Jazz-Sänger stirbt mit 45 Jahren|work=Focus|access-date=29 March 2016}} his father, Eugen Cicero, had also died from the same cause.{{cite web |url=http://www.gmx.net/magazine/unterhaltung/stars/roger-cicero-tot/roger-cicero-stirbt-hirninfarkt-vater-31456474 |title=Roger Cicero stirbt an Hirninfarkt - wie sein Vater |access-date=29 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331103115/http://www.gmx.net/magazine/unterhaltung/stars/roger-cicero-tot/roger-cicero-stirbt-hirninfarkt-vater-31456474 |archive-date=31 March 2016 }}
Discography
{{main|Roger Cicero discography}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| rowspan=2|2009
|Ricci Blum | |
| The Princess and the Frog
|Prince Naveen |German version |
Books
- 2010: Weggefährten. Meine Songs fürs Leben, Rowohlt, Berlin {{ISBN|978-3-499-62652-4}}.
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- [http://www.roger-cicero.de/ Official website (in German)]
- [http://myspace.com/rogercicero Official MySpace page (in German and English)]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVtcqAfLlMQ Video of the song "Frauen regier'n die Welt"]
- [http://www.ahk.nl/ Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten]
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| before=Texas Lightning
with "No No Never"
| title=Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest
| years=2007
| after=No Angels
with "Disappear"
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Category:Musicians from Berlin
Category:People with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
Category:German people of Romanian descent
Category:Echo (music award) winners