Roy Hamilton

Roy Hamilton was born on Apr 16, 1929 in USA. Roy Hamilton's big-screen debut came with Double Take directed by George Gallo in 2001. Roy Hamilton is known for Britney Spears Live from Miami directed by Hamish Hamilton, Britney Spears stars as Self and Kevin Wilson as Dancer. The upcoming new movie Roy Hamilton plays is A Thousand Words which will be released on Mar 09, 2012.

Roy Hamilton was born in Leesburg, Georgia, on April 16, 1929. His family moved to Jersey City, NJ, in 1943. He was an experienced gospel singer and one-time Golden Gloves boxer. He specialized in a mixture of pop, show and R&B tunes. He was signed by Columbia Records in 1953 after being discovered in a local club. He later signed with Columbia's subsidiary Epic Records. He had huge charted success with his first single "You'll Never Walk Alone". In 1955 he would have s chart-topping hit with what what would become one of the most recorded songs of all time, "Unchained Melody" (from the prison film Prisons sans chaînes (1955)). He also had success with "Don't Let Go" (1958), considered a rock standard (later reworked by Isaac Hayes); "You Can Have Her"; "Lips"; "A Great Romance"; "Time Marches On"; "If I Loved You" and "Hurt", among others. He appeared in the film Let's Rock (1958).