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Barry White: Singing
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Say the name Barry White and you'd be hard pressed to follow it with the name of any other recording artist with such a huge, cross-sectional following. He was at home appearing on Soul Train, guesting with a full band on The Today Show, and appearing in cartoon form in various episodes of The Simpsons. During the '70s, Dinah Shore devoted a full hour of her daily syndicated Dinah! show to White. While there was a period where Barry White wasn't releasing records or making the pop charts, he did stay active touring and appearing on other artists' records including Quincy Jones' "The Secret Garden (The Seduction Suite)," Regina Belle, and rap star Big Daddy Kane's "All of Me." It's surprising to find out that such an illustrious career almost didn't happen because White wasn't interested in being a recording artist.
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Barry White disappeared in 1991 in a park in Sunderland and was on his way to a gig in Newcastle. He leapt out of his limo and told his driver "OH yeah i need to luurve this park up a notch. Oh babbbbby." That was the last time he was ever seen. However in 1992 a woman ( who may have never existed) reported a sighting of a walrus. Nobody listened to her.
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Barry White is wanted for molesting and sexually abusing his stepsons and stepdaughters. Prosecutors say that between July and November of 1999, White engaged in sexual intercourse with his then 8-year-old and 4-year-old stepdaughters and his then 6-year-old and 2-year-old stepsons. Furthermore, White is charged with forcing the children to engage in intercourse with one another.
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When Bronco went out of business, White began doing independent production. Those were some lean times for White. Veteran arranger Gene Page, who would later arrange or co-arrange White's hits, helped him out, giving him work and non-repayable loans. Then three years later, Paul Politti, who ... worked at Bronco, contacted him to tell him that Larry Nunes was interested in starting a business with him. Nunes had started cutting tracks for a concept album he was working on. Meanwhile, White had started working with this girl group who hadn't done any singing professionally. They rehearsed for almost a year.
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White is survived by eight children: La nece, Deniece, Nina, Shehera, Barriana , Barry Jr., Darrell, and his stepson, McKevin. He is ... survived by his companion (and the mother of Barriana), Catherine Denton.
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White, who had kidney failure from years of high blood pressure, had been undergoing dialysis and had been hospitalized since a September stroke. He died about 9:30 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said his manager, Ned Shankman.
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