Roger Cicero
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Roger Cicero performing live at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Roger Marcel Cicero Ciceu |
| Born |
6 July 1970 West Berlin, Germany |
| Origin | Germany |
| Died | 24 March 2016 (aged 45) Hamburg, Germany |
| Genres | jazz, pop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer, songwriter |
| Years active | 2003–2016 |
| Labels | Starwatch Music |
| Website | Official site |
Roger Marcel Cicero Ciceu (6 July 1970 – 24 March 2016) was a German jazz and pop musician.
Roger Cicero was born in 1970 in Berlin to Romanian jazz pianist Eugen Cicero and dancer Lili Cziczeo.
He made his first stage appearance at the age of eleven as a support act for Swiss singer Helen Vita and was first on television aged 16, alongside the RIAS-Tanzorchester, then under the direction of Horst Jankowski. Cicero joined the Hohner Conservatory in Trossingen when he was 18, where he received coaching in piano, guitar and singing. Between 1989 and 1992, he appeared alongside the Horst Jankowski Trio, the Eugen Cicero Trio (his father’s group) as well as with the Bundesjugendjazzorchester (German Youth Jazz Orchestra), then directed by Peter Herbolzheimer. From 1991 to 1996, he studied jazz singing at the Amsterdam Academy of Arts (Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten) at Hilversum. He was a guest singer with the groups Jazzkantine and Soulounge with whom he took part in the Montreux Jazz Festival. In 2003, he founded the Roger Cicero Quartet, as well as continuing to perform with his eleven-piece big band. His style is predominantly that of 1940s and 1950s swing music, combined with German lyrics.
In 2006, Cicero sang on jazz pianist Julia Hülsmann's album Good Morning Midnight and released his first solo album Männersachen. He worked alongside thirteen composers (predominantly Matthias Haß and Frank Ramond). Schieß mich doch zum Mond is the German version of Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me to the Moon. The covered track Zieh die Schuh aus (Take your shoes off), reached number 71 in the German singles chart. The album Männersachen made it to number three.
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.
On 7 July 2007 he performed at the German leg of Live Earth in Hamburg. On 1 May 2008 he became father to a son, Louis.
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