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Barry White: Los Angeles
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One of the saddest Labor Day holidays came to fruition when Barry White flew up to see his Angels. He had a unique voice, a unique style and always packed the music stadiums in Philadelphia
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White got a release from Uni for Love Unlimited and they joined him over at 20th Century Records. Then he had a brainstorm for another concept album. He told Regan he wanted to do an instrumental album. Regan thought he had lost it. White wanted to call it the Love Unlimited Orchestra. The single, "Love's Theme," went to number one pop, was a million-seller, and was a smash all over the world. The song earned him a BMI award for over three million covers.
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White was forced to cancel seven concerts when he went on tour in 1999 because his doctor told him the stress was causing him harm. Then White had a stroke in September of 2002, which left him hospitalized. On July 4, 2003, White died in Los Angeles of kidney failure. He was only 58 years old. Ally McBeal creator David E. Kelley put it well when he told Entertainment Weekly, "Bigger than life, [Barry White] was a legend who made us all smile." And he is certainly one who will not soon be forgotten.
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Mr. White was born in Galveston, Texas, and moved to Los Angeles with his mother at age 6 months. His youth in the South Central Los Angeles area was marked by gang activity and petty crime, and he was jailed at age 16 for stealing tires from an auto dealership. In the 1980s, his younger brother Darryl was killed in a street shooting.
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Born Sept. 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.
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Mr. White, who had married his childhood sweetheart and had four children (the couple divorced in 1969), then hooked up with Bob Keane, the Los Angeles record producer and label owner who had discovered Richie Valens and worked with Sam Cooke. Mr. White learned his way around the recording studio working for Keane's Bronco label in Hollywood, where he developed such acts as Viola Wills and Felice Taylor.
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