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Roy Hamilton (b. April 16, ''1929'', Leesburg, Georgia â€“ d. July 20, 1969, New Rochelle, New York) was an American singer who achieved major success in both the R&B and pop charts in the 1950s.

He moved to Jersey City in 1943, studied commercial art, had operatic and classical voice training, and was a heavyweight Golden Gloves boxer, before joining gospel quartet The Searchlight Singers.{{Fact|date=May 2008 In 1947 in music|1947, he entered and won an amateur talent show at the Apollo Theater with his dramatic rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone (song)|You'll Never Walk Alone" from the musical ''Carousel (musical)|Carousel''. However, he did not record commercially until 1953,{{Fact|date=May 2008 after he was discovered singing in a New Jersey club by local DJ Bill Cook, who became his manager.{{Fact|date=May 2008 Columbia Records saw him as a possible "crossover" singer with a foothold in both pop and R&B , and signed him to their subsidiary label, Epic Records|Epic. His first single, "You'll Never Walk Alone", became an R&B number 1 for eight weeks, and a national US Top 30 hit in 1954, and shot Hamilton to fame.

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