Bertie
Higgins
Bertie Higgins was born and raised in
Tarpon Springs, Florida, and while still
in his teens, Bertie met and became
a protégé of the actor/directors,
Richard Boone and his friend, Burt
Reynolds who saw Bertie's writing
potential and tutored him in screen
writing. His screen writing career
would have to wait, however, as he
diverted his creative abilities toward
the music business. Bertie had been
working on a song and that song
became KEY LARGO. After being
released on the CBS/SONY label, it
blew a hole in the U.S. charts and
when it reached number one in the
nation, the world took notice and it became an international evergreen. Other hit
singles followed like JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE and CASABLANCA. Casablanca
became song of the year in all of the Pacific Rim countries and when the CD reached
multi-platinum status, Bertie became an international recording star literally overnight.
He has appeared on all the major network talk and variety shows, was featured as an
actor in THE GUIDING LIGHT as well as THE ABC MYSTERY MOVIE OF THE WEEK and
starred in the feature film, OUT OF HAND. He recently performed in 2016 with Michael
Bolton and Arnold Schwarzenegger during international and Chinese New Year on two
television shows from Beijing. The performances were viewed by an audience of three
billion people worldwide.
Bertie opened an office in Burbank, California in 2010 to pursue his love of film making
and to work with his son, Julian Higgins, who was a film student majoring in film direction.
After writing several screenplays he decided to form a production company with
Julian and they began producing their own projects. The first film was entitled BEAST
BENEATH and was released by LION'S GATE in early 2012. The next film was entitled,
POKER RUN. Bertie co-wrote the script, produced, took a role in and supervised the
music in the film. It is being distributed domestically and internationally. Their current
film projects now completed and are entitled, THE COLOMBIAN CONNECTION, starring
Tom Sizemore also in international distribution, CHRISTMAS IN HOLLYWOOD, a family film
now being distributed in China and North America, and STILL ROCKIN', a documentary
about the creation of Rock and Roll which is nearing completion.
Bertie completed his twenty fifth album which was released in summer 2019 and
distributed by Universal Music.
In 2017, Bertie was knighted, inducted into the Florida Music Hall of Fame (presented
by Burt Reyolds,) received the Mozart Award, the Beethoven Award, received an
honorary PHD in music and holds the title of Sir Bertie Higgins, PHD. He was inducted
into the Florida Artist Hall of Fame along with other notables such as Ernest Hemingway.
Learn more about Bertie Higgins at www.bertiehiggins.com.