Bertie Higgins

Tarpon Springs

Elbert Joseph Higgins was born on December 8, 1944 in Tarpon Springs, Florida, where he worked as a sponge diver before music. He began as a ventriloquist at 12, played drums in Tommy Roe's backing band The Roemans, and became an actor, producer and director as well as a singer-songwriter. His genres are listed as soft rock, tropical rock, adult contemporary and country, and his fans are called Boneheads, with a pirate theme.

Just Another Day in Paradise (1982, Epic) was recorded from January to November 1981 at Pyramid Eye Recording Studio on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and at Southern Tracks in Atlanta, produced by Sonny Limbo and Scott MacLellan, and runs 40:52. It reached 38 in the US and 32 in Australia. Later records include Pirates and Poets (1983, Kat Family/CBS) and releases on Southern Tracks, his own Key Largo label, Sony and Toucan Cove/Universal, and he re-recorded "Key Largo" in a country version in 2014.