Barry White (1944) and Barry Lee as his real name is, began his career modestly. The singer with the famous dark voice was initially, in the sixties, mainly active as a man behind the scenes at the careers of, among others Viola Wills, The Bobby Fuller Four and The 5th Dimension. One of his most successful acts of the time, the women's group Love Unlimited, where he is the classic single Walking In
… the Rain With The One I Love to wrote and produced in 1972. When he for one of his next songs needed a male singer, he himself already sang a demo. The people of his record company persuaded him to sing the song itself and I've Got So Much To Give (1973) was a success. His next step was an instrumental concept album of the Love Unlimited Orchestra (Rhapsody in White (1974) with the hit Love's Theme), which was also a great success. In the seventies, Barry White sensual soul sound set of many love the bedroom favorite music. During the exhausting tours leave White is invariably accompany the Love Unlimited Orchestra. In the eighties, taking a overtired White gas back to the end of the decade again scribbling. He can be heard on albums by Quincy Jones (The Secret Garden, 1990) and Big Daddy Kane (Taste Of Chocolate, 1990) and in 1992 brings the duet with Lisa Stansfield (All Around The World) it actually back in the charts. In the nineties appear as usual in quick succession a series of albums, especially The Icon Is Love (1994) has high sales. Barry White is struck on May 1, 2003 by a massive stroke, and he lost his power of speech. On July 4 of that year the singer dies at the age of 58 in Los Angeles to kidney disease. (MS)more
