Teddy pendergrass cause of death
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Teddy Pendergrass, Singer born
*Teddy Pendergrass was born on this date in 1950. He was a Black singer and entertainer.
Theodore DeReese Pendergrass Jr. was born in Kingstree, S.C., and moved to Philadelphia as an infant with his mother, Ida Pendergrass. Growing up in North Philadelphia, Pendergrass was steeped in gospel and soul music. He was two years old when he first stood on a chair to sing at a storefront Holiness church. With his mother’s encouragement, he often attended church seven days a week. But he was also drawn to the Uptown Theater, which presented top performers on the R&B tour. When he was a teenager, his mother gave him a set of drums, and he taught himself to play them.
Pendergrass dropped out of high school to become a musician, working with R&B and doo-wop groups. In 1969 he joined Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, a vocal group working in Philadelphia since the mid-1950s. He soon moved from the drums to lead vocals. Kenneth Gamble and Leon A. Huff, a Black songwriting and production team, had noticed Pendergrass while preparing for a Blue Not
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Teddy Pendergrass
American soul and R&B singer-songwriter (1950–2010)
Musical artist
Theodore DeReese Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010) was an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter. He was born in Kingstree, South Carolina.[2][3][4] Pendergrass lived most of his life in the Philadelphia area, and initially rose to musical fame as the lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. After leaving the group in 1976, Pendergrass launched a successful solo career under the Philadelphia International label, releasing five consecutive platinum albums (a record at the time for an African-American R&B artist). Pendergrass's career was suspended after a March 1982 car crash left him paralyzed from the chest down. Pendergrass continued his successful solo career until announcing his retirement in 2007. He died from respiratory failure in January 2010.
Early life
Teddy Pendergrass was born Theodore DeReese Pendergrass on March 26, 1950, in Kingstree, South Carolina.[4] He was the only child of Jesse and I
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Bio
Teddy Pendergrass was born Theodore DeReese Pendergrass March 26th, 1950, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Raised in Philadelphia at a young age he began singing gospel and playing drums in church. At age 10, he became an ordained minister, and as a teen Pendergrass played drums for the vocal group The Cadillacs.
His rhythmic skills earned him a spot in The Blue Notes, led by Harold Melvin. In 1970, Pendergrass stepped out from behind the drumkit and became the lead singer. In 1972, the newly revamped Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes signed with Philadelphia International Records (PIR) and scored their first Top 10 R&B hit with “I Miss You,”. The group is best known for 1972’s “If You Don’t Know Me By Now,” which topped the US R&B chart and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. With Pendergrass as the lead, The Blue Notes also topped the R&B charts with “The Love I Lost” (1973) and “Wake Up Everybody” (1975).
In 1975, Pendergrass left the group and established a solo career releasing his self-titled solo debut, a Top 10 R&B hit that achieved platinum sal
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