Donny Hathaway | A Greatest Singer
Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, and arranger. Hathaway signed with Atlantic Records in 1969 and with his first single for the Atco label, “The Ghetto”, in early 1970, Rolling Stone magazine “marked him as a major new force in soul music.” His enduring songs include “The Ghetto”, “This Christmas”, “Someday We’ll All Be Free”, “Little Ghetto Boy”, “I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know”, signature versions of “A Song for You”, “For All We Know”, “Where Is the Love” and “The Closer I Get to You”, two of many collaborations with Roberta Flack. “Where Is the Love” won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1973. At the height of his career, Hathaway was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. On January 13, 1979, Hathaway’s body was found outside the luxury hotel Essex House in New York City; his death was ruled as suicide,More info:wiki
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#10 Center Stage play probes troubled mind of Donny Hathaway,More info:baltimoresun
By the age of 25, he had cut his first solo album. A couple years later, he had a major hit and a Grammy for his duet with Roberta Flack, “Where Is the Love?”
But on Jan. 13, 1979, Donny Hathaway died on a New York City sidewalk after falling 15 stories from his hotel room. He was 33.
The singer’s short, troubled life and apparent suicide will be explored in “Twisted Melodies,” a one-man play written and performed by Kelvin Roston Jr. that gets its Baltimore premiere at Center Stage this weekend.
“I didn’t know too much about him before I started working on this,” says the St. Louis-born, Chicago-based Roston, 38. “I knew ‘This Christmas’ and [Hathaway’s cover of Leon Russell’s] ‘A Song for You,’ and I knew he sang the theme for the TV show ‘Maude.'”
#9 “Where Is The Love”: Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway’s Collaborations,More info:interactive.wttw
Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly explores the career of singer and pianist Roberta Flack. Made famous by hits like “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” Flack is almost equally known for her collaborations with Chicago singer, arranger, and musician Donny Hathaway. The two recorded some of the most adored duets of all time, like “Where Is The Love” and “The Closer I Get To You.”
Their fruitful relationship began when both were studying music at Howard University. Flack was one of the youngest students ever to enroll there, having entered to study piano when she was 15. Hathaway played in a jazz trio while there, but left to accept job offers in the musi industry before graduating. While Flack slowly built up a reputation playing in Washington, D.C.-area clubs, Hathaway worked for Curtis Mayfield’s Curtom Records in Chicago, writing, arranging, producing, and playing on songs for artists like Mayfield, the Staples Singers, and Aretha Franklin.
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