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Bobby Darin （born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973） was an American singer, musician, and actor.
He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music.
He started his career as a songwriter for Connie Francis.
He recorded his first million-selling single, "Splish Splash", in 1958.
That was followed by "Dream Lover", "Mack the Knife", and "Beyond the Sea", which brought him worldwide fame.
In 1962 he won a Golden Globe Award for his first film, Come September, co-starring his first wife, actress Sandra Dee.
During the 1960s, he became more politically active and worked on Robert F. Kennedy's Democratic presidential campaign.
He was present on the night of June 4/5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles at the time of Robert Kennedy's assassination.
During the same year, he discovered the woman who had raised him was his grandmother, not his mother as he thought, and learned that the woman he thought was his sister was actually his mother.
Those events deeply affected Darin and sent him into a long period of seclusion.
Although he made a successful comeback （in television） in the early 1970s, his health was beginning to fail, as he had always expected, following bouts of rheumatic fever in childhood.
The knowledge of his vulnerability had always spurred him on to use his musical talent while still young.
He died at the age of 37 after a heart operation in Los Angeles.
Walden Robert Cassotto was born May 14, 1936, in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
His maternal grandfather, Saverio Antonio "Big Sam Curly" Cassotto （born January 26, 1882）, was a would-be mobster of Italian descent who died in prison f...