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Winter Roberts
12+ albums
acousticsinger-songwriter
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Winter Roberts | Biography Having spent many years exploring the road less traveled Winter Roberts is a bohemian soul who has lived an unconventional and colourful life of extremes. Born in the UK, but raised in Ibiza, he went on to spend nine years based out of Hamburg and travelling Eastern Europe, becoming fluent in four European languages along the way. A sing songwriter since his teens, his early career was spent signed to a German record label called Teldec (later to become East West Records). From 87-89 Winter Roberts found himself performing all over the Eastern Block, winning the prestigious Sopot Song Festival in Poland, touring Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and spending an amassed 6 months in East Germany over that two year period. He become somewhat of a local celebrity, with TV appearances including many appearances on Intervision (the eastern equivalent to Eurovision, but with 725 million viewers) and guest appearances on major Moscow TV shows. One of his most vivid memories of this time was landing in Moscow and being tailed by teenagers all singing his songs - his first indication of the power of media. Another memory from these years is of performing with his band in between live sex-shows on Grosse Freiheit, in Hamburg's renowned Red Light District, just one in a long list of bizarre and unusual gigs Winter Roberts has played in his time. Having released a number of singles across Germany and Eastern Europe, Winter Roberts decided to come back to the UK, a
