Charlie Robles, better known as Charlie Robles, was a Puerto Rican singer, composer, actor and teen-idol of the 1960s.
19 Facts About Charlie Robles
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Charlie Robles was born in Jayuya, Puerto Rico, but as a youngster, he moved with his family to the Bronx, New York, in the United States, where he discovered a love for American rock and roll music.
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Charlie Robles was a fan of Elvis Presley and of Bill Haley.
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Charlie Robles soon started receiving musical classes from Jose Figueroa Sanabria, who would teach Charlie Robles for a period of three years.
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Charlie Robles hoped to become a classical music player and studied the violin.
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Soon, Charlie Robles became a member of a musical trio named "Los Romanticos", where he joined voices with Papo Roman and with yet another "Pepito", Jose Maldonado.
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Herger then stopped production of Teenagers' Matinee, and Charlie Robles moved on to canal 4.
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Charlie Robles was in the Dominican Republic touring as a singer when he was drafted by the United States Army to serve, when the Vietnam War was yet not officially declared.
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Charlie Robles became an actor, performing for soldiers at some musicals.
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Honorably discharged in 1969, Charlie Robles returned to Puerto Rico, where he faced stiff challenges from new young singers and acts in the island but, at the same time, he was able to expand his fame abroad, winning the second "Festival de la Cancion Latina", celebrated in Mexico, with a song titled "Genesis".
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Back home, Charlie Robles participated in a show hosted by Luis Vigoreaux named "Luis Vigoreaux Presenta" and one hosted by Velda Gonzalez, "De Fiesta con Velda".
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Charlie Robles participated in a show named "Los Alegres Tres".
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Charlie Robles decided to diversity in his professional life as the 1970s progressed: he became a balladeer instead, and participated in a few films as an actor.
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Charlie Robles appeared on Gaspar Pumarejo and Tito Rodriguez's television shows and worked at the "Fesival de la Popularidad", a show that was produced at various Puerto Rico cities.
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Charlie Robles acted in two well-known films, named "Fray Dollar" and "Popa Astronauta".
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Charlie Robles became a nightclub singer and earned a living singing at many of the island's best known nightclubs of the era.
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Charlie Robles tried his hand as a salsero and musical composer during the early 1980s and in his spare time was a member of a salsa music band named "Salsa Expreso" and he composed a number of songs.
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Charlie Robles died on February 28,2011, at the Mayaguez Heart Clinic in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, of a brain stroke.
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Charlie Robles was buried at the Puerto Rico National Cemetery in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.