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FLUX
on 2003-07-06 09:24 [#00768333]
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The day the soul, romance and bass died ;*( Soul Singer Barry White Dies in LA 05/07/2003 11:59 AM Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Soul singer Barry White, whose rich bass crooning stirred romance in the hearts of a generation of fans, has died at the age of 58, his manager Ned Shankman says.
Shankman told reporters White, a two-time Grammy winner, died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles where he had been battling kidney failure brought on by high blood pressure. He suffered a stroke in May.
Born in Galveston, Texas, White had been hoping to regain enough strength to undergo a kidney transplant, his daughter Shaheara White said in May.
With smoky ballads like "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" and "You're the First, The Last, My Everything," White provided the soundtrack to countless candlelight dinners and late-night trysts.
He also found success as a composer, a conductor of instrumental recordings and as the producer of the female vocal trio Love Unlimited.
"The Doctor of Love" achieved pop icon status as a romantic mentor in the hit TV series "Ally McBeal" and on the animated TV series "The Simpsons."
He reached the peak of his popularity in the mid-1970s, but won two Grammys in 2000 for best male and traditional R&B vocal performance for the song "Staying Power."
White's was the classic rags-to-riches tale -- raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Watts, he was exposed to gang violence on a daily basis. He burgled homes, stole cars, drank and fought. He became a father twice while still in his teens.
While serving a five-month jail stint in 1960 for stealing tires, he heard an Elvis Presley song that changed his life. He took the words of "It's Now or Never" to heart, and decided he had to change his life.
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2003-07-06 09:26 [#00768335]
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um.. yeah.. we already knew..
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FLUX
on 2003-07-06 09:28 [#00768336]
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Sniff.
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DJ Xammax
from not America on 2003-07-06 09:29 [#00768337]
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Oh baby.
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TonePu5her
from lincoln !UK! (United Kingdom) on 2003-07-06 09:45 [#00768357]
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I never knew him,hated his music.So I doesn't bother me.
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cuntychuck
from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2003-07-06 09:53 [#00768372]
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im not crying
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DJ Xammax
from not America on 2003-07-06 09:55 [#00768375]
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Shame on you all.
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FLUX
on 2003-07-06 09:55 [#00768377]
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Who with a heart can hate Barry's music?
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DJ Xammax
from not America on 2003-07-06 09:59 [#00768383]
Points: 11512 Status: Lurker | Followup to FLUX: #00768377
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Exactly!
First, Last, My Everything is a quality track!
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TonePu5her
from lincoln !UK! (United Kingdom) on 2003-07-06 10:00 [#00768385]
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Me
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aneurySm
from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2003-07-06 10:00 [#00768386]
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wow, that date says it was two months ago but I never heard about it....
Harvey Keitel said his talk to Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver was inspired by Barry White's lyrics
and Jimmy Pop said I'm not black like Barry White but white like Frank Black is...
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Netlon Sentinel
from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2003-07-06 10:02 [#00768388]
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nah it's the european way of writing dates :) it actually was last friday :D
i mean, not that it was a happy event (with all them smileys i put up there)
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nacmat
on 2003-07-06 10:04 [#00768389]
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I didnt like his music a lot, but its always sad... he was still young to die
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roygbivcore
from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2003-07-06 13:01 [#00768575]
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thats disgusting, you people have no soul
you'd probably love him if he fucking made noise tracks
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Erronous
from Netherlands, The on 2003-07-06 13:03 [#00768578]
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true.
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theo himself
from +- on 2003-07-06 14:30 [#00768641]
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what is that lyric from?
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thelema
from Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) on 2003-07-07 06:44 [#00769213]
Points: 41 Status: Regular | Followup to theo himself: #00768641
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It's a Bloodhound Gang song.
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diablo
on 2003-07-07 06:46 [#00769217]
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He was great. Listen to "Playin Your Game" and say it's not amazing.
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