Roger Taylor

Roger Taylor

actor, music department, composer

Roger Taylor was born on Jul 26, 1949 in UK. Roger Taylor's big-screen debut came with Flash Gordon directed by Mike Hodges in 1980. Roger Taylor is known for Bohemian Rhapsody directed by Bryan Singer, Rami Malek stars as Freddie Mercury and Lucy Boynton as Mary Austin. Roger Taylor has got 1 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Roger Taylor achieved is West Coast International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Roger Taylor plays is The Oscars which will be released on Feb 24, 2019.

Roger Meddows Taylor (born 26 July 1949) is an English musician who performs as a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the drummer of the rock band Queen, but has also served as songwriter and occasional lead vocalist.As a songwriter, Taylor contributed songs to Queen's albums from the very beginning, composing at least one track on every album, and often singing lead vocals on his own compositions. He wrote or co-wrote three UK number 1s ("These Are the Days of Our Lives", "Innuendo" and "Under Pressure") and contributed a further major hits ("Radio Ga Ga", "A Kind of Magic","One Vision", "Heaven for Everyone", "Breakthru", and "The Invisible Man"). In addition to his drum work, Taylor routinely played keyboards, guitars and bass on his own songs. During the 1980s, in addition to his work with Queen, he formed a parallel band known as The Cross, in which he was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist. Taylor is also well-known for his falsetto vocal range.By the time Queen's album 'News of the World' was released in 1977, Taylor had met his future girlfriend, Dominique Beyrand, who was working for Richard Branson at the time, who was at the helm of Queen's free concert at Hyde Park. They lived together from 1980 to 1987, raising their two children: actor Felix Taylor and doctor Rory Eleanor Taylor. They decided to get married for reasons relating to his estate, to protect his children's interests in the future. At the time, Taylor was seeing another girl, model/actress Deborah Leng, the Cadbury's Flake girl also seen in Queen's "Breakthru" video; he moved in with her a month after his marriage of convenience to Beyrand. Before Freddie Mercury's death, Taylor and Leng had their first child, drummer Rufus Taylor, who was born in March 1991. He ended up having two more children with Leng: models Tigerlily Taylor (1994) and Lola Leng-Taylor (2000). In late 2002, they decided to break up.Taylor remarried on 26 August 2010, to Sarina Taylor. He resides in Guildford, Surrey, but also has a home in Helford, Cornwall. Her younger half-sister is fashion model Genevieve Potgieter.

  • Birthday

    Jul 26, 1949
  • Place of Birth

    Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England, UK

Known For

Awards

1 wins & 3 nominations

West Coast International Film Festival
2017
Best Composer
Winner - Elbert Lewis Award
Solitary (2015)

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