Bobby Farrell

Bobby Farrell

Roberto Alfonso Farrell was a Dutch dancer, performing artist and singer from Aruba. He was best known as the male member of the successful 1970s pop and disco group Boney M. Farrell was born and raised on the island of Aruba in the Dutch colony of Curaçao and Dependencies.

About Bobby Farrell in brief

Summary Bobby FarrellRoberto Alfonso Farrell was a Dutch dancer, performing artist and singer from Aruba. He was best known as the male member of the successful 1970s pop and disco group Boney M. Farrell was born and raised on the island of Aruba in the Dutch colony of Curaçao and Dependencies. He left after finishing school at 15 and was a sailor for two years before moving to Norway.

In 1981 he married Macedonian Romani Jasmina Shaban. They had a daughter named Zanillya in 1983, and a son named Zanin. They split in 1995. He died on the morning of 30 December 2010, in a hotel in St. Petersburg, of heart failure.