Francis Rossi
Francis Dominic Nicholas Michael Rossi, OBE is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the cofounder, lead singer and lead guitarist of the rock band Status Quo.
Rossi was born onMay 1949 in Forest Hill, London. His fathers side of the family were Italian ice cream merchants of the Rossi Ice Cream fame, and his mother was a Northern Irish Roman Catholic from Liverpool. Rossi grew up in a household with his parents, grandmother, and lots of aunts and uncles, and was given a Roman Catholic upbringing, having been named after Saint Francis of Assisi. He attended Our Lady and St Philip Neri Roman Catholic Primary School in Sydenham, and Sedgehill Comprehensive School for high school, from which he was expelled on his last day. It was at Sedgehill where Rossi met Alan Lancaster, with whom he formed the band The Scorpions a predecessor to Status Quo. Rossis desire to become a musician began after seeing The Everly Brothers live on television at a young age, after which he asked his parents to buy him a guitar for Christmas.
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