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Tommy Roe

トミー・ロウ　/　とみー・ろう

American singer

May 9, 1942 (age 84)　・　Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Georgia
singer
musician
singer-songwriter

My Take

Tommy Roe is easy to file under bubblegum and forget, but I think that does him a disservice. Sheila, Sweet Pea and Dizzy are impossibly catchy, the sort of songs that lodge in your head for days, yet his early work had a genuine rock bite that critics like Bill Dahl rightly flagged. What I admire is the songwriting craft underneath the sweetness; writers who generate their own hooks tend to outlast the fads that briefly define them. The Atlanta native helped color the 1960s with pure pop joy, and I respect anyone who can make happiness sound that effortless.

Overview

Thomas David Roe (born May 9, 1942) is an American rock and pop singer-songwriter. Best-remembered for his hits "Sheila" (1962), "Sweet Pea" (1966) and "Dizzy" (1969), Roe was "widely perceived as one of the archetypal bubblegum artists of the late 1960s, but cut some pretty decent rockers along the way, especially early in his career," wrote the AllMusic journalist Bill Dahl.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Tommy Roe
Name (Japanese): トミー・ロウ
Reading: とみー・ろう
Born: May 9, 1942 (age 84)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Taurus / Horse
Origin: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: singer / musician / singer-songwriter / recording artist / composer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
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4. Personality

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6. Links

Official sitehttp://www.tommyroe.com/
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A6

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