Robin Merrill

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Robin Merrill

Robin Merrill (born July 17, 1953 in Salisbury , Great Britain ) is an English singer , broadcaster , television presenter and emcee . He is the conductor and singer of the Savoy Dance Orchestra from Berlin. For nine years, until 1989, he was the lead singer of the Pasadena Roof Orchestra with worldwide appearances.

education

Merrill sang in the boys' choir at Cathedral School in Salisbury while he was still at school . He attended as a music student's Repton School , Derby , and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London , a vocal training .

Career

Singer

In 1978 Merrill was one of the original cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical Evita at the Prince Edward Theater in London . From 1979 to 1989 he was lead singer with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra (PRO) , with whom he went on concert tours and galas with hot swing music of the 1930s and 1940s. Since 1979 he has also made numerous recordings as a singer with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra. In 1988 Merrill last appeared as lead singer with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra in the theater of the Savoy Hotel London.

From 1989 Merrill lived in Berlin and had numerous engagements as a solo singer and emcee in Europe . In 1993 Merrill appeared at the Ronacher Theater in Vienna as a solo singer and conférencier in Ronacher specialties . In 1993 he appeared in the Wintergarten in Berlin as a solo singer and emcee in the Kapriolen program , directed by André Heller .

In 1993 he founded the Savoy Dance Orchestra with Stefan Warmuth, the musical director of the Wintergarten in Berlin, trying to build on his past as a singer with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra . In 1994 Merrill was the solo singer at the Federal Press Ball .

From 1999, further appearances as a singer followed: 1999/2000 in the winter garden as conférencier and singer in the millennium show As Time Goes By , directed by Bernhard Paul . In 2000 he also played in the operetta Im Weißen Rössl at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm . With the show As Time Goes By he appeared in the Friedrichsbau-Varieté in Stuttgart in 2000 and in 2001 in Roncalli's Apollo Varieté in Düsseldorf.

Further programs followed in 2001: Varieté, Varieté - for the open-air vaudeville evening at the BUGA in Potsdam and Swingle Bells , with which Merrill again performed in the winter garden .

In 2003 Merrill was with the shows Swingin 'Wintergarten Varieté in the Mecklenburg State Theater Schwerin , with Veronika, the swing is here ...! to be heard in the Philharmonie Berlin and with As time goes by-swing of the 30s and 40s at a concert as part of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in Heringsdorf .

With Robin Merrill & The Savoy Dance Orchestra he gave concerts in the Brandenburger Theater in 2003 under the motto An evening with the great hits of the swing era and under the title Hot Swing Dance Night at Wintertraum in the Autostadt in Wolfsburg . The Music of the Gershwins followed in 2004 in the Konzerthaus Berlin am Gendarmenmarkt, a Gershwin gala in the Theater in Brandenburg an der Havel and the concert Robin Merrill & The Savoy Dance Orchestra in the Theater von Putbus .

Moderator

From 1989 to 1994 Merrill was chief reporter for the Breakfast Show at BFBS radio in Berlin. Here he also interviewed numerous world stars such as Elton John , David Bowie , Anthony Hopkins , Dudley Moore and others.

From 1995 to 2002 Merrill worked at Deutsche Welle-TV as an English-speaking presenter on the weekly program Regarding - the Story of the Week , the English edition of Subject of the Week

Merrill has worked for Deutsche Welle-TV since 2002 as a producer, presenter and news anchor, including for " euromaxx - Life and Culture in Europe " (TV magazine, English-language edition), which he accompanied for 8 years.

From 2012 he presented the weekly show "Insight Germany".

Now retired, he only performs occasionally. His son Max Merrill has taken on some of his duties and is mostly on the air with sports reports. In some spectacular competitions, for example the “ Cheese Race on Cooper's Hill” or the “World Coal Carrying Championships”, he presents himself as a participant and reporter.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tradition adventure: Hauling coal on YouTube , from May 12, 2019
    Tradition adventure: Cheese races in England on YouTube , from June 30, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Merrill, Robin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English singer, film actor, television presenter, emcee and orchestra leader
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Salisbury