Roberto Alfonso Farrell was born on 6th October 1949 on the Caribbean Island of Aruba and passed away on 30th December 2010, was divorced and has a son and a daughter. He was one of the members of the 1970s group Boney M.
When he was 15 years old, Bobby finished his studies and left his country to become a sailor. Two years later, he travelled to Norway and then the Netherlands, where he sometimes worked as a DJ. Eventually, he moved to Germany and continued doing a DJ job.
This job ended when a German producer noticed Bobby and asked him to join the 3 female members of the newly created group Boney M, to which he accepted and became a singer and dancer. This producer stated that Bobby hardly sang the group’s songs, and it was him who did instead. Albeit Bobby did give live performances.
In 1981, Farrell left ‘Boney M’ and another singer took his place. Bobby joined the band again 3 years later but after 2 more years, the group disbanded. Afterwards, he formed a group named Bobby Farrell’s Boney M and went on several tours singing the group’s hits.
Amongst the group’s most famous hits there are ‘Daddy Cool’, ‘Rasputin’, ‘Ma Baker’, ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’, ‘Rivers of Babylon’, ‘Mary’s Boy Child’, ‘Sunny’ and many, many others.
Farrell died of heart failure on 30th December 2010 at the age of 61 in Russia. A somewhat incredible fact is that he passed away on the same day and same city as one of the most famous Russian historical figures, Grigori Rasputin, who is the subject of one of the group’s biggest hits.