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Ross Bagdasarian Jr. was born on 25 October 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Alvin & the Chipmunks (1983), The Chipmunk Adventure (1987) and Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007).
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Ross S. Bagdasarian [a] (/ b æ ɡ d ə ˈ s ɛər i ə n /; January 27, 1919 – January 16, 1972), known professionally by his stage name David "Dave" Seville, [3] was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor of Armenian descent best known for creating the cartoon band Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. was born on 25 October 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Alvin & the Chipmunks (1983), The Chipmunk Adventure (1987) and Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007).
- October 25, 1949
Ross Dickran Bagdasarian (born May 6, 1949) is an American actor, singer, animator, and record producer, known for his work on the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise. He is the son of the franchise's creator, Ross Bagdasarian. [1] [2]
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Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. (May 6, 1949) is an American film producer, record producer, singer, and voice artist and the son of the Alvin and the Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. He is also the co-creator of The Chipettes.
As a child, Bagdasarian, Jr. worked with his father on The Alvin Show by helping edit and coordinate the soundtracks and falsetto voice-overs of The Chipmunks. Nearly forty years later in "A Chat With Alvin," a track from the Greatest Hits: Still Squeaky After All These Years album, Ross Jr. says he didn't have to watch his dad write the music and the show, and his dad didn't have to go to his Little League games.
After his father's untimely death in 1972, Bagdasarian, Jr. succeeded him as the main owner of the Chipmunks productions, which had fallen into obscurity after significant success between 1958 and the late 1960s. He would later head Bagdasarian Productions with his singer-manager Janice Karman.
Ross Jr., a law school graduate, was surprised to find himself following in his father's footsteps.
Under his supervision, new Chipmunks records were created in 1979, shortly after marrying Karman, starting with Chipmunk Punk. In 1980, the Chipmunks returned to television in the cartoon special A Chipmunk Christmas. Three years later, Ruby-Spears Productions' Alvin and the Chipmunks Saturday morning cartoon series debuted on NBC. Ross Jr. sings and speaks the parts of Alvin, Simon, and Dave Seville throughout the series.
Bagdasarian, Jr. licensed the rights to the Chipmunk characters to Universal Pictures in 1996, resulting in the direct-to-video films Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein and Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman. Four years later, he and Janice Karman sued them for breach of contract, claiming that Universal failed to properly utilize, mar...
In 2007, Bagdasarian, Jr. produced the Alvin and the Chipmunks film, based on the cartoon, featuring computer-animated Chipmunks and a live-action Dave Seville.
Initially, he was also going to provide Alvin and Simon's voices, but was replaced at the studio's insistence with the younger actors Justin Long and Matthew Gray Gubler respectively.
•As mentioned by Janice, Ross is a vegetarian.
•His middle name, Dickran, was the name of his grandfather, Dickran Bagdasarian.
•"One of the things Ed Sullivan loved about my Dad was that he used less time than he was allotted. Performers coveted each second on the Sullivan show like gold because of it's huge audience and influence. Nonetheless, if Pop was given time for two songs, but only felt he could deliver one good performance, he told Ed to give the extra time to someone else. That may be one of the reasons Ed invited him back six times."
•"My Dad was a wonderful singer. His voice was rich and strong and reassuring. It could strike fear in you or make you laugh or feel safer than anywhere else in the world. His talent made David Seville much more interesting because you knew Dave could sing as well as The Chipmunks. Maybe not as high, but definitely as well."
•Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. - Wikipedia
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1.Alvin and the Chipmunks History, Web.archive.org, Retrieved 2015-07-16.
Dec 28, 2009 · All Ross Bagdasarian Jr. wanted to do in the late ’70s was pay tribute to his father, Ross Bagdasarian Sr., the man who created Alvin and the Chipmunks. He decided to release the album ...
Dec 24, 2018 · Years after his father created a hit singing group of anthropomorphic rodents called The Chipmunks, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. made it his mission to revive his dad's beloved characters.
