After 18 months, he left the university and joined the civil service education department to try teaching in an apprenticeship. He did enjoy singing and entertaining during school breaks at the Equator Club in Nairobi, Kenya. He enrolled at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, but found he wasn't ready to settle into a life of constant studying. In 1956, Whittaker was demobilized from the army and began to concentrate on studying medicine. It seemed such a natural thing for me to do.' He also began to compose his own music during this time. He told Billboard, 'Somebody played piano and I sang Tennessee Ernie Ford and Frankie Laine songs like 'Sixteen Tons,' 'Mule Train,' and 'Jezebel.' It was a great success and I thoroughly enjoyed it. In the army, he enjoyed singing for an audience. However, Whittaker was drafted into the national service just three weeks after he finished school at the Prince of Wales School of Nairobi, and spent the next two years in the Kenya Regiment. 'In the last three years of my formal education, I managed to work hard enough to get top grades in all my school exams and I had great hopes later of studying to become a teacher or a doctor,' he said on his official website. While his fellow students would be nervous to sing in front of an audience, Whittaker would be eager to sing. Growing up, Whittaker was a good student, and especially enjoyed singing in the choir at school. His father, Edward, was from a family of grocers and his mother, Valda Viola, was a teacher. Whittaker's parents were originally from Staffordshire in England, but had relocated to Nairobi, Kenya, because of his father's ailing health. He has used his skills for political causes and charities as well as entertaining, and sales of his recordings exceed 50 million worldwide. įor more than 40 years, Roger Whittaker has been singing, whistling, and telling stories that have had audiences laughing with joy and crying with sentiment. Website-Roger Whittaker Official Website. Addresses: Management-Bruce Lahti, BML Management, 1730 Tree Boulevard, Unit 2, St.

Education: Attended the University of Cape Town, South Africa earned bachelor of science degree, University of Bangor, Wales. Born on March 22, 1936, in Nairobi, Kenya son of Edward (a grocer) and Valda Viola (a teacher) married Natalie, 1964 wife's name, Natalie children: Emily, Lauren, Jessica, Edward (Guy), Alexander.

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