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Jul 04, 03
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Barry White died today
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...179190963.html
Los Angeles: Velvet-voiced R&B crooner Barry White, renowned for his lush baritone and lyrics that oozed sex appeal on songs such as Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe, died this morning, his manager said. White, who had suffered kidney failure from years of high blood pressure, died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre around 9:30 am (2300 AEST), said manager Ned Shankman. He was 58. White had been undergoing dialysis treatment and had been hospitalised since last September. His work epitomised seductive disco music, also known as "make out" music. The heavyset musician enjoyed three decades of fame for songs like You're the First, the Last, My Everything and It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me. White's deep, butter-smooth vocals and throbbing musical tempos emphasised his songs' sexually charged verbal foreplay. His 1975 song Love Serenade began with the purring, first-person lyrics: "I want you the way you came into the world/ I don't want to feel no clothes ..." advertisement advertisement Although his popularity peaked in the 1970s, White received belated recognition for his work in 2000, when he won his first two Grammys for best male and traditional R&B vocal performance for the song Staying Power. Born September 12, 1944, in Galveston, Texas, to a single mother, White and his younger brother, Darryl, spent most of their childhood in south central Los Angeles. He said he had a lifelong love for music. During his early teenage years, he began singing in a Baptist church choir and was quickly promoted to director. In 1990, White told Ebony magazine that his voice changed overnight from the squeaky tones of a preadolescent to the rumbling bass that made him famous. "It scared me and my mother when I spoke that morning," he said. "It was totally unexpected. My chest rattled. I mean vibrations. My mother was staring at me, and I was staring at her. The next thing I knew, her straight face broke into a beautiful smile. Tears came down her face and she said, 'My son's a man now'". He was jailed at age 16 for stealing tyres, a punishment he credited with helping him straighten out his life and dedicate his efforts to music. Inspired by the Elvis Presley song It's Now or Never, White joined the Upfronts soul group as bass singer and cut six singles. For several years, he stayed away from performing and focused on work behind the scenes as a songwriter and producer. He married a childhood sweetheart, identified only as Mary in his autobiography, and fathered four children with her before they separated in 1969 and later divorced. White discovered the female trio Love Unlimited - which included his future second wife, Glodean James - and produced their million-selling 1972 single Walkin' in the Rain With the One I Love. The next year, White returned to performing with the song I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby, which topped the R&B chart and hit No 3 on the pop chart. He is credited by some for helping launch the disco phenomenon with his orchestral Love's Theme in 1973, which he conducted with his group, The Love Unlimited Orchestra. In 1974, his album Can't Get Enough climbed to the top of the pop charts on the strength of the signature hits Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe and You're the First, the Last, My Everything. That year he also married James. The couple had four children together and collaborated on the 1981 album Barry & Glodean, which featured the songs I Want You and You're the Only One for Me. They divorced in 1988, but he said they always remained good friends. White suffered a family tragedy in 1983 when his brother, Darryl, was shot and killed in a dispute with a neighbour over change from a $20 bill. In his 1999 autobiography, Love Unlimited: Insights on Life and Love, Barry White said music likely spared him a similar fate. After working on more than a dozen albums in the 1970s, his career waned over the next decade as he attempted small comebacks with the albums The Right Night & Barry White (1987) and The Man is Back! (1989.) He enjoyed a larger resurgence with 1994 album The Icon Is Love, and his ballad Practice What You Preach became his first No 1 hit in 17 years. Toward the end of the 1990s, his songs were regularly featured on the Fox comedy series Ally McBeal and he made an appearance on the show as himself. His single Staying Power, off a 1999 album of the same name, won White two Grammys and proved he hadn't tamed his libidinous lyrics. "Put on my favourite dress, the one that oozes sexiness," he cooed in the title track's opening lines. That year White's chronic blood pressure problem forced him to cancel several live performances with the group Earth, Wind & Fire and he was briefly hospitalised. White's survivors include eight children, grandchildren, and his companion Catherine Denton. 
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Jul 04, 03
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R.I.P. Barry White
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Jul 04, 03
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Dave and i are officially dedicating Rhythm Nation to the memory of Barry White...
anyone who knows me he is someone i truly admired, and even travelled a couple of times great distances to see him perform live. this is a really sad day...
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Jul 05, 03
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shit... no more Barry White... that sucks... guess he got enough of yo love (babe)
:( and I was gonna get him to do vocals for some of my tracks, too! hehe ya right I wish oh well guess it's back to mailing letters to Isaac Hayes... RIP Barry White ahhhh yeah... I love the sexy slither of the femaaale snake
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Jul 05, 03
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I CANT GET ENOUGH OF YO LOVE BABY!!!!!!!!!!! rest in peace brudda
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Jul 05, 03
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I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!!!
REST IN PEACE, GRAND MASTER PLAYA!!!! i just found a few things out that is kinda weird from reading that article: barry white died of kidney failure, i almost died of kidney failure when i was 3 years old. barry white was born on september 12. 1944, i was born 40 years to the day (september 12. 1984). WTF?!?!?! once again, rest in peace. your legacy and memory will live in our hearts forever. :349:
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