#BLACK LEGEND BARRY WHITE SERIES#

When he was 5, his mother bought a used piano and taught him to harmonize. He was born in Galveston, Texas, but his family moved early on to Los Angeles. But it seemed so effective in its bedroom campaigns that it was a source of both envy and parody. White's gruffly warm baritone made up in character what it lacked in range.

White insisted his music was about making love, not sex. White's songs were more lyrically implicit than explicit, extolling concepts such as fidelity and respect. 1 in 1974 with Love's Theme, and love was the theme over the next three decades. But African-American audiences, in particular, have always been more impressed with the contents than the packaging, which partly explains why in the '70s White and his studio extensions, Love Unlimited and the Love Unlimited Orchestra, sold close to 100 million records worldwide. He had been battling kidney failure brought on by high blood pressure and had a stroke in May.īarry White was the most unlikely looking of stars, a man of massive girth, sometimes derided as the Walrus of Love. White died last Friday in Los Angeles aged 58. Funny thing: They did sound romantic when spoken by Barry White, Maestro of Love, Sultan of Soul, Buddha of the Bedroom. To prove that, David Letterman once enlisted the R&B legend to read a Top 10 list, 'Words That Sound Romantic When Spoken by Barry White': 'Gingivitis, Doohickey, Gubernatorial, Jazzercise'.

White's silken, sensuous, rumbling baritone that could swoop into an intensely profundo basso was a voice that could make the most mundane words seem rich with possibility. It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me. What Am I Gonna Do With You?, I'll Do for You Anything You Want Me To. You're the First, the Last, My Everything.

#BLACK LEGEND BARRY WHITE SERIES#

Women yearned for Barry White's crushed-velvet pillow talk, contained in a series of glorious '70s singles: I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby.

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