Roberto "Bobby" Alfonso Farrell (October 6, 1949 — December 30, 2010) was a dancer and performer, best known as the male member of the successful 1970s pop and disco group Boney M. Bobby Farrell lived in Amsterdam Zuidoost, in the neighbourhood of Gaasperdam.
Bobby Farrell was born and raised on the island of Aruba in the Lesser Antilles, where he lived until age 15. After finishing school he worked as a sailor for 2 years, travelling across the oceans before settling in Norway. From Norway he went to the Netherlands, where he got some work as a DJ in the Netherlands before getting better opportunities in Germany.
In Germany, he worked mostly as a DJ until producer Frank Farian spotted him for his new Boney M. group. He became the sole male singer in the group, although Farian later revealed that Bobby Farrell made almost no vocal contributions to the group's records, with Farian himself performing the male parts on the songs in the studio. Liz Mitchell claimed that only she and Farian had sung on the hit recordings. Farrell did, however, perform live in some of the various incarnations of 'Boney M'.
Bobby Farrell also appeared as a dancer in late 2005 in the Roger Sanchez videoclip of Turn on the Music.
Bobby Farrell died the morning of December 30, 2010 in a hotel in Saint Petersburg. His agent John Seine said Farrell was complaining of breathing problems after performing with his band the evening before. The cause of death is still unknown
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