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Rock & Roll Singer My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer (Scalia). Bobby Darin, born Walden Robert Cassotto on May 14th 1936 and later died on December 20th 1973 at the age of 37. Darin was an American vocalist, songwriter, and actor of painting and television. He was the son of an Italian-born cabinet maker in Bronx, New York. He had a normal childhood as many did and was backed with a pleasant family who supported and encouraged his every musical move. As a child he suffered something called severe rheumatic fever, which is inflammatory disease that may develop as a complication of a streptococcus infection. It is often similar to Strep throat or scarlet fever. This caused him to be much protected in his keep and helped him strive to be as successful as he could be with the short life that he had. Later in life he arrange out that the people he grew up thinking were his parents were in fact not, his mom was the his sister and his parents were ac tually his grandparents, he never found out who his bring was. Although he had many complications that did not stop him from following his dream. Darin was well versed and spread out with the many instruments that he played. He started out playing in a band in high schooling and later landed at job at Catskills resort with his band for the summer. After High school he enrolled at Hunter College where he started his professional music career writing songs for the Aldon Music label. After scratching out an existence as a commercial-jingle composer, he changed his name to Bobby Darin, and became a professional singer in 1956 (Scalia).That is when he signed for own first record contract with Atco. While writing songs, Darin met singer Connie Francis, and he help... ...73. Darin had suffered from rheumatic fever as a child. He had always suffered from cheek problems and they finally started to catch up with him. suffering a minor heart attack in January 1971, but he went on to enjoy r oles in Ironside (1971) and Night Gallery in 1972 before making what would be his final appearance in Happy Mothers Day, make love George in 1973 (Bobby Darin Biography). On December 11, 1973, he was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to get repairs to artificial heart valves that had previously been implanted. Even though his time was impose short his music still lived on appearing in numerous films and movie soundtracks, including Goodfellas, American Beauty and The Sopranos. Darins life story was brought to the big hiding in Beyond the Sea in 2004. Bobby Darin was in the process of making a comeback when he died in 1973.