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Infobox musical artist| name = Bertie Higgins| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Elbert Joseph Higgins| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1944|12|08| origin = Tarpon Springs, Florida | death_date =| instrument =| genre = Country music|Country , pop music|pop , soft rock | occupation = Singer-songwriter | years_active = 1982present| label = Epic Records|Epic | associated_acts =| website = official website| http://www.bertiehiggins.com Elbert Joseph "Bertie" Higgins (born December 8, 1944, Tarpon Springs, Florida|Tarpon Springs , Florida ) is an United States|American singer-songwriter .cite news|url= http://news.google.com/newspapers? id=Tm4fAAAAIBAJ& sjid=rmgEAAAAIBAJ& pg=4969,7526979& dq=bertie-higgins+singer+songwriter& hl=en|title=Singer Songwriter Bertie Higgins Appears Monday At Pazzazz Lounge|date=16 December 1983|work= Sarasota Herald-Tribune |publisher= Diane McFarlin |page=90|accessdate=23 September 2010|location=Sarasota, Florida, USA In 1982, he had his only Top 40 album with Just Another Day in Paradise . It spawned the Top 10 romantic ballad " Key Largo (song)|Key Largo ", which referenced the Humphrey Bogart Key Largo (film)|movie of the same name and reached #8 in the United States|U.S. Billboard Hot 100 record chart , number one in the adult contemporary charts, and a country hit as well. In 2009, his song was #75 on VH1's Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80's. He also became a multi-platinum recording artist in the Pacific Rim countries including Japan and China due to the mega-hit, "Casablanca".
Career
Higgins is of Irish people|Irish , German people|German , and Portuguese people|Portuguese descent; he is a direct descendant of the German author Johann Wolfgang Goethe .cite news|url= http://news.google.com/newspapers? id=0UEIAAAAIBAJ& sjid=4j8DAAAAIBAJ& pg=4417,359509& dq=bertie-higgins+goethe& hl=en|title=Singer Bertie Higgins to perform|date=12 July 1990|work=The Cedartown Standard|page=3A|accessdate=23 September 2010|location=Cedartown, Georgia, USAcite news|url= http://news.google.com/newspapers? id=N-wwAAAAIBAJ& sjid=398FAAAAIBAJ& pg=4652,278672& dq=bertie-higgins+goethe& hl=en|title=Bertie Higgins Finds Success|last=Atkins|first=Tony|date=16 October 1982|work= The Daytona Beach News-Journal|Daytona Beach Morning Journal |page=34|accessdate=23 September 2010|location=Daytona Beach, Florida, USAcite web|url= http://www.bertiehiggins.com/biography.html|title=Bertie's Biography|publisher= Official Website of Bertie Higgins |accessdate=23 September 2010cite news|url= http://news.google.com/newspapers? id=07kfAAAAIBAJ& sjid=3NcEAAAAIBAJ& pg=3753,1643713& dq=bertie-higgins+goethe& hl=en|title='Trop Rocker ' performs at annual music event|date=12 May 1999|work= The Gadsden Times|Gadsden Times |page=23|accessdate=23 September 2010|location=Gadsden, Alabama, USAcite news|url= http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1018822.ece|title=Tarpon Springs' Bertie Higgins of 'Key Largo' fame joins son to make a horror flick|last=Reeves|first=Terri Bryce|date=16 July 2009|work= St. Petersburg Times |publisher= Times Publishing Company |accessdate=23 September 2010|location=St. Petersburg, Florida, USAcite book|last=Miller|first=Zell|title=They heard Georgia singing|url= http://books.google.com/books? id=7kv8EdRRkiQC& pg=PA138& dq=goethe+%22Bertie+Higgins+%22& hl=en& ei=zImbTLEIwpKzBuawzY0E& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=1& ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=goethe%20%22Bertie%20Higgins%20%22& f=false|year=1996|publisher= Mercer University Press |isbn=0-86554-504-9|page=138
Higgins' musical career began with a teenage band, "The Romans" (later changed to "The Roemans"), which signed to ABC Records|ABC-Paramount Records in the early 1960s, and was temporarily backing singing|singer Tommy Roe , hence the change of spelling from Romans. The band (music)|band released three single (music)|singles between 1964 and 1966. These achieved some Airplay (radio)|radio airplay but did not reach any national record chart|charts .
After Higgins failed to follow up the success of "Key Largo," he was plagued with personal and legal problems that included a divorce, alcoholism, a night in jail for making threatening phone calls to the mother of his ex-wife's boyfriend, and four months in prison for a 1995 DUI crash http://voices.yahoo.com/bertie-higgins-where-he-now-6298292.html Bertie Higgins: Where Is He Now? .
His eldest son, Damian Higgins , is a drum and bass Disc jockey|DJ , producer and label head (Human Imprint), who goes by the moniker Dieselboy .
In recent years, Higgins has moved into film film producer|production with another son, Julian Higgins, producing The Wrath (distributed by Lions Gate ) and a biker film, Poker Run , which was released in 2009. Higgins also co-wrote the screenplays, supervised the music and acted in major roles in both films. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063338/ "Poker Run on IMDB"
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Ru2tsT32pHA Key Largo video on youtube.com
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