Bobby Hatfield
Bobby Hatfield (born August 10, 1940 in Beaver Dam , Wisconsin , † November 5, 2003 in Kalamazoo , Michigan ; actually Robert Lee Hatfield ) was the singer of the successful American soul duo Righteous Brothers .
Bobby Hatfield met Bill Medley, his future partner with the Righteous Brothers, while studying. It's easy to tell the voices of the Righteous Brothers apart. The high voice ( tenor ) is always that of Bobby Hatfield.
Hatfield and Medley celebrated their greatest successes in the 1960s and 1970s. The Righteous Brothers hit Unchained Melody was sung as a solo solo by Bobby Hatfield. It was first successful in the USA and Great Britain in 1965 and reached the top 10 in the USA and the top 20 in Great Britain. The success of the film Ghost - Message from Sam (with Patrick Swayze ), in which he sang the version of Unchained Melody found use, the song reached first place in the UK in 1990 and also made it into the German top ten. Another solo record by Bobby Hatfield under the name Righteous Brothers was Ebb Tide , which again reached the top 10 in the USA in 1965.
Bobby Hatfield died on November 5, 2003 at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, apparently in his sleep, hours before a scheduled performance with Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley . At first it was assumed that there was a heart attack. In a toxicological report published in January 2004, it was found that the heart attack in coronary arteries that were already constricted was caused by cocaine use. He was the father of two children from a divorced marriage.
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| SURNAME | Hatfield, Bobby |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hatfield, Robert Lee (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer of the soul duo "The Righteous Brothers" |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beaver Dam , Wisconsin , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 2003 |
| Place of death | Kalamazoo , Michigan , USA |