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Mamy blue ricky shayne biography
Ricky Shayne
Ricky Shayne | |
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Shayne in Düsseldorf, 2009 | |
| Birth name | George Albert Tabett |
| Born | (1944-06-04) 4 June 1944 (age 80) Cairo, Egypt |
| Origin | French and Lebanese |
| Genres | pop; schlager |
| Occupation(s) | singer; actor; businessman |
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Labels | Hansa Records |
Musical artist
Ricky Shayne (born 4 June 1944) is a pop singer and an actor of French and Lebanese descent who was popular in Europe in the 1960s, especially in Germanophone countries.
Biography
Shayne was born George Albert Tabett on 4 June 1944 in Cairo, Egypt, to a Lebanese father and a French mother.[1] Young Tabett moved to Paris when he was 15 years old, with his mother, and took music lessons for two years.
He then moved to Italy where, in 1965, under the stage name "Ricky Shayne," he had his first hit with the single "Uno dei Mods" ("One of the Mods"), written by Gianni Meccia and Franco Migliacci. It was featured in the Italian-German 1966 musi