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YeeTVMusic News & Radio Gibb who was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2011 is dead. (22 December 1949 - 20 May 2012) Robin Hugh Gibb, was a singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry. He had a brother, Andy Gibb, who was also a very popular singer.

"The quavering voice of Robin Gibb was one of the key ingredients in the sound and success of the Bee Gees.

Over a period of 40 years, Robin - alongside twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry - racked up a string of hit singles and albums.

From their early incarnation as pop troubadours to their dramatic reinvention as the kings of disco in the mid-1970s, they notched up more than 200 million album sales worldwide.

They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

But it was a bumpy road with inner tensions in the band causing a brief split. The Gibbs also had to deal with the pain of losing younger brother Andy at an early age and the death of Maurice at 53.

Robin Gibb was born in Douglas on the Isle of Man on 22 December 1949, just 35 minutes before Maurice. Music was an early part of his life as the boys' father Hugh was a drummer and bandleader.

The family moved to Manchester in the 1950s, before undertaking the long journey to Australia. There they settled in one of Brisbane's poorer neighbourhoods.

Robin, together with Maurice and Barry, began playing gigs under a variety of names before settling on The Bee Gees.

In 1963 their first single, The Battle of the Blue and the Grey, made the charts in Sydney and earned them an appearance on a local TV station.

They continued to play and record and in 1965 the single The Spicks and Specks gave them their first Australian number one.

Frustrated by the limited potential in Australia, the band moved back to the UK in 1966.

There they were auditioned by impresario Robert Stigwood, who got them a recording contract with Polydor" (BBC)