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Roger Cicero
Roger Cicero was born on the 6th of July 1970 in West Berlin, the son to dancer Lili Cziczeo and Jazz pianist Eugen Cicero. Through his parents, his passion for music came naturally to him and he pursued it early on. At eleven years old, he was already opening concerts for Helen Vita. Five years later, he made his first television appearance, with the RIAS Dance Orchestra, led by Horst Jankowski.
From 1989 to 1992, after attending the conservatory and undergoing training in piano, guitar and singing, Roger Cicero performed with artists such as the Horst Jankowski Trio and the Eugen Cicero Trio.
The next five years he spent studying Jazz, singing in Hilversum, before becoming a guest singer with the groups “Jazzkantine” and “Soulounge”.
In 2003, he formed the Roger Cicero Quartett and some time later also performed with an eleven-strong big band. From that time on on, Roger performed swing music from the 40s and 50s, which he skilfully combined with German lyrics, like for example changing Frank Sinatras “Fly Me To The Moon” into “Schieß mich doch zum Mond”. The song is from Roger’s debut album “Männersachen” (“Men’s stuff”), which also features his most popular hit “Frauen regier’n die Welt” (“Women Rule the World”), with which he finished 19th out of 24 in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. In August 2006, “Männersachen” reached no. 3 in the German charts. By early 2009, a million copies of the song had been sold.
In the summer of 2007, Roger Cicero performed with Juli, Shakira, Yusuf Islam and Silbermond at Germany’s “Live Earth concert” in Hamburg. In the following year, he gave his debut as an actor next to Heike Markatsch, playing the musician Ricci Blum in the film “Hilde”.
By 2015, Roger Cicero had been in the top 5 of the German charts with four other albums, “Beziehungsweise” (“Respectively”), “Artgerecht” (“species-appropriate”), “In diesem Moment” (“At This Moment”) and “Was immer auch kommt” (“Come What May”) and also released the DVD/Blu-ray-album “Cicero Sings Sinatra – Live in Hamburg”.
Roger Cicero sold more than 1.4 million records during his career, making him one of the 21st century’s most successful German language Jazz singers.
On the 24th of March 2016, Roger Cicero, just like his father, died from an ischemic stroke, at the age of only 45.