Rod Lauren

Singer and professional Rod Lauren remains to be most effective remembered for his 1960 pop strike “EASILY Had a woman.” Blessed Roger Lawrence Strunk in Fresno, CA, on March 20, 1940, he was raised in close by Tracy, playing trombone in his senior high school marching music group. After graduation Strunk started performing in Fresno-area nightclubs using a support group dubbed the Buddies. His traditional crooner strategy contrasted sharply with prevailing rock and roll & move sensibilities, and in 1959 he agreed upon to the RCA label, implementing the alias Fishing rod Lauren. Along with his debut ballad, “EASILY Had a woman,” he have scored his first in support of Top 40 strike. Subsequent initiatives including “A Crazy Creativity” and “Pay attention My Appreciate” didn’t generate similar curiosity, and afterwards Chancellor label produces like “A Searcher for Appreciate” and “I Ain’t Got You” seduced even scarcer interest. Lauren nevertheless continuing headlining night clubs in southern California and NEVADA while also seeking an acting profession, in 1962 co-starring within an bout of television’s Alfred Hitchcock Presents. A calendar year afterwards, he starred within the B-movie The Crawling Hands. In 1964 Lauren journeyed to the Philippines to capture the battle feature Once Before I Die. There he fulfilled rising Filipina celebrity Nida Blanca, and after greater than a 10 years of shuttling between Manila and LA, the few finally wed in 1979. Along with his performing and acting professions very long since stalled, Lauren resolved completely in Manila and continued to be within the limelight via Blanca, who surfaced among the Philippines’ many beloved actresses because of her leading part within the long-running sitcom John en Marsha. But on November 7, 2001, Blanca was discovered stabbed to loss of life. A employed killer called Philip Medel confessed towards the criminal offense, but stated Lauren commissioned his wife’s murder. The criminal offense dominated headlines through the entire Filipino media, even though Lauren was interrogated, he was under no circumstances formally billed. In January 2002, he was permitted to go back to his hometown of Tracy to wait to his dying mom, so when he refused to come back to Manila after her moving, murder charges had been filed. While operating at an area Sears shop, Lauren was imprisoned and jailed while awaiting an extradition hearing; in November 2003, a U.S. Magistrate rejected extradition and purchased his discharge after Filipino specialists failed to source sufficient proof his guilt. “The thing the Philippine federal government acquired implicating me was the created confession of the person, Philip Medel, who I acquired never fulfilled,” Lauren stated later in a press meeting. “He recanted it, significantly, in open courtroom five days afterwards.” Lauren afterwards worked being a surveillance camera operator for Tracy’s open public access television place. On July 12, 2007, he dedicated suicide, tossing his body from the second-floor balcony of a location resort. He was 67 yrs . old.