Petersburg College to study journalism and fine art, but the music continued to sing in his heart. After graduating from Tarpon Springs High School, Bertie enrolled in St. His first band played proms, homecoming dances, and sock hops. Two years later, a battered set of drums forced a career change and Bertie set off to follow the backbeat heard around the world - Rock and Roll. He won top prizes in local talent contests and became a favorite at school assemblies around Tampa Bay. The resounding theme throughout Bertie's work: 'Make the best of today lest tomorrow never comes'.Д«ertie, who once supported himself as a sponge diver, began his career in show business at the age of twelve as a ventriloquist. His fantasy songs deal with the beauty and sensuality of the tropics and his story songs combine past experiences and future hopes. His love songs explore the efforts of man trying to fathom the mystery and allure of women. Bertie is an intellectual romantic who loves to paint story songs about living and loving in a tropical paradise. He was born Elbert Joseph Higgins of Portuguese, Irish and German descent and raised in the picturesque Greek community of Tarpon Springs, Florida. Like his great, great grandfather, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the German poet who penned 'Faust', Bertie Higgins is a storyteller.

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