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Feb 11, 2021 · Roy Orbison married his girlfriend Claudette Frady in 1957, but divorced in 1964 due to her infidelities. However, they reconciled 10 months later. She tragically died in 1966, in a car crash.
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison's music is mostly in the rock music genre and his most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late 1980s.
Apr 2, 2014 · Singer-songwriter Roy Orbison wrote romantic 1960s pop ballads like "Oh, Pretty Woman." In 1987, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Dec 17, 2010 · Goldmine had the chance to sit down one afternoon with Roy’s widow, Barbara Orbison, whom he wed in 1969, to get an inside look at the man, the myth and the musical legend who was taken from us far too soon in 1988. Tell me about the 1950s-era Roy Orbison. He must have had great stories of that time.
The couple had two children together: Roy Kelton Orbison Jr. and Alex Orbison. Orbison died of heart attack in Tennessee at the age of 52 on December 6, 1988. Although he complained about recurring chest pain and exhaustion to his friends and family, he never did anything about it.
Dec 7, 2011 · Barbara Orbison, the widow of Rock and Rock Hall of Famer Roy Orbison, died Wednesday, 23 years to the day of her husband’s death. She was 60.
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Sep 17, 2024 · Roy Orbison (born April 23, 1936, Vernon, Texas, U.S.—died December 6, 1988, Hendersonville, Tennessee) was an American singer-songwriter who was best remembered for his soaring voice, one of the most operatic in all of rock music, and for his carefully crafted ballads of loneliness and heartache.
