Certainly not an international star by any means, he was a legendary musician locally with a number of Top 40 hits...His son, a singer on his own accord who won a TV show contest, said this of his father:
Well, my old pops is gone to rest I’m trying to make sense of it and I feel like he was the rock on the shore I could always gauge me distance with. Now I feel like I’ve walked out too far and when I turn around to see the shore there is no rock there to let me know where I am or that ive gone too far. Lord please make my dad a star in the heavens so that I may lead my way back to solid ground.
James Brown could have picked up a few tips on stage showmanship from Roy......Ben