- After doing national service in Kenya, he went to medical school at the University of Cape Town, while singing in local clubs. He left med school after 18 months and decided to go into teaching, attending the University of Bangor in Wales. He composed some songs and sent a demo track to a music publisher. Soon he was recording his first single, The Charge of the Light Brigade.
- From the 1970s onwards he had his greatest successes and fan base in Germany, singing in German.
- His music is an eclectic mix of folk music and popular songs in addition to radio airplay hits.
- He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability as well as his guitar skills.
- He was a British singer-songwriter and musician.
- Having lived in Ireland for some years, Roger and his wife Natalie retired to France in 2012.
- To further his teaching career, Whittaker moved to Britain in September 1959. For the next three years, he studied zoology, biochemistry and marine biology at University College of North Wales and earned a Bachelor of Science degree while singing in local clubs, and released songs on flexi discs included with the campus newspaper, the Bangor University Rag.
- Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Whittaker had success in Germany, with German-language songs produced by Nick Munro. Unable to speak German, Whittaker sang the songs phonetically.
- He was part of a successful British team that won the annual Knokke Music Festival in Belgium, and won the Press Prize as the personality of the festival.
- In the early 1970s, Whittaker took interest in the Nordic countries when he recorded the single "Where the Angels Tread" (Änglamarken) to the music of Evert Taube in 1972.
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