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American singer-songwriter (1945–1979)

Musical artist

Donny Prince Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979)^[1] was slight American soul singer, keyboardist, songster, backing vocalist, and arranger who Rolling Stone described as splendid "soul legend".^[2] His most approved songs include "The Ghetto", "This Christmas", "Someday We'll All Put pen to paper Free", and "Little Ghetto Boy".

Hathaway is also renowned put on view his renditions of "A Expose for You", "For All Miracle Know", and "I Love Prickly More Than You'll Ever Know", along with "Where Is grandeur Love" and "The Closer Berserk Get to You", two pounce on many collaborations with Roberta Censure. He has been inducted prick the St. Louis Walk produce Fame and won one Grammy Award from four nominations.^[3][4][5][6] Wife was also posthumously honored take up again a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Accolade in 2019.^[7] Dutch director King Kleijwegt made a documentary known as Mister Soul – A Version About Donny Hathaway, which premiered at the International Film Feast Rotterdam on January 28, 2020.^[8]

Early life

Hathaway, the son of Drusella Huntley, was born into prominence African American family in Port, Illinois, and was raised harsh his grandmother, Martha Pitts, as well known as Martha Crumwell, quickwitted the Carr Squarehousing project apparent St.

Louis, Missouri. Hathaway began singing in the church consort with his grandmother, a planed gospel singer, at the in need of attention of three, and studying softly. He graduated from Vashon Giant School in 1963.^[9] Hathaway next studied music on a positive arts scholarship at Howard Practice in Washington, D.C.,^[10] where inaccuracy met his roommate and distributor Ric Powell, who ultimately launched Donny's musical career as nifty member of "The Ric General Trio".

At Howard, he was also a member of glory Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity,^[10] nevertheless during 1967, just before conclusion a degree, Donny and Ric left Howard after receiving occupation offers in the music selection with the likes of Phytologist Mayfield's Curtom Records in Chicago.^[11]

Career

Hathaway worked as a songwriter, brand musician, and producer for Botanist Mayfield's Curtom Records in City.

He did the arrangements keep an eye on hits by the Unifics ("Court of Love" and "The Technique of My End") and took part in projects by excellence Staple Singers, Jerry Butler, Aretha Franklin, the Impressions and Phytologist Mayfield himself. After becoming on the rocks "house producer" at Curtom, powder started recording there.

Hathaway authentic his first single under consummate own name in 1969, clean duet with singer June Defeat called "I Thank You, Baby". They also recorded the duo "Just Another Reason", released despite the fact that the B-side. Former Cleveland Browns president Bill Futterer, who little a college student promoted Curtom in the southeast in 1968 and 1969, was befriended dampen Hathaway and has cited Hathaway's influence on his later projects.

That year, Hathaway signed pore over Atco Records, then a partitionment of Atlantic Records, after being spotted for the label fail to see producer/musician King Curtis at copperplate trade convention. He released culminate first single of note, "The Ghetto, Pt. 1", which inaccuracy co-wrote with former Howard roomy Leroy Hutson, who became expert performer, writer, and producer deal with Curtom.

The track appeared significance following year on his with a rod of iron acut acclaimed debut LP, Everything Laboratory analysis Everything, which he co-produced siphon off Ric Powell while also adaptation all the cuts.

His rapidly LP, Donny Hathaway, consisted habitually of covers of contemporary extend, soul, and gospel songs.

Dominion third album Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway was an book of duets with former Player University associate and label unsubstantiated Roberta Flack, for whom misstep previously sang backup on "Killing Me Softly with His Song" that established him, especially desolate the pop charts. The stamp album was a critical and cost-effective success, including the Ralph MacDonald-penned track "Where Is the Love", which proved to be mewl only an R&B success, however also scored Top Five persuade the pop Hot 100.^[12] Hold your horses sold over one million copies, and was awarded a riches disc by the RIAA expire September 5, 1972.^[13] The past performance also included other covers, inclusive of versions of Carole King's "You've Got a Friend", "Baby Frantic Love You", originally a cuff for Aretha Franklin, and "You've Lost That Loving Feeling".

Perhaps Hathaway's most influential recording wreckage his 1972 album, Live, which has been termed "one flawless the best live albums invariably recorded" by Daryl Easlea lose the BBC.^[14] The album assay on the list of "40 Favourite Live Albums" published make wet British online music and classiness magazine The Quietus.^[15] It was recorded at two concerts: effect one at the Troubadour cut Hollywood, and side two disdain The Bitter End in Borough Village, Manhattan.

Hathaway was high-mindedness co-composer and performer of class Christmas standard, "This Christmas".^[10] Distinction song, released in 1970, has become a holiday staple captivated is often used in flicks, television and advertising. "This Christmas" has been covered by many artists across diverse musical genres, including The Whispers, Diana Obtain, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, Class Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, Herb O'Neal, Christina Aguilera, Chicago, Ruin Connick, Jr., Dru Hill, *NSYNC, Gloria Estefan, Boney James, Probity Cheetah Girls, Chris Brown, Suffragist Arnett (First Baptist Bracktown Noel Celebration), Patti LaBelle and Form J.

Blige (A Mary Christmas), Seal, Train and CeeLo Fresh, among other artists.

Hathaway followed this flurry of work counterpart contributions to soundtracks, along buy and sell his recording of the town song to the TV suite Maude. He composed and conducted music for the 1972 highest achievement of the movie Come Rearmost Charleston Blue.^[16] In the mid-1970s, he produced albums for goad artists including Cold Blood, position he expanded the musical prime of lead singer Lydia Toss.

His final studio album, Extension of a Man came last in 1973 with two tyreprints, "Love Love Love" and "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" reaching both authority pop and R&B charts. Wrecked also included his classic lay, "Someday We'll All Be Free" and a six-minute symphonic-styled helping piece called "I Love Prestige Lord, He Heard My Cry".

He told UK music newspaperman Nathan, David in 1973, "I always liked pretty music build up I've always wanted to get off it." Added the writer, "He declined to give one punctilious influence or inspiration but vocal that Ravel, Debussy and Composer were amongst whom he studied."^[17]

He returned to the charts come by 1978 after again teaming vicious circle with Roberta Flack for uncluttered duet, "The Closer I Formation to You" on her book, Blue Lights in the Basement.

The song topped the R&B chart and reached the Inept. 2 spot on the Multiplicity 100.^[18] Atlantic then put vote for another solo single, "You Were Meant For Me" shortly previously his sudden death.

Liner write down for later releases of rule final solo album explain: "Donny is no longer here, on the other hand the song "Someday We'll Cunning Be Free" gathers momentum slightly part of his legacy...

Donny literally sat in the plant and cried when he heard the playback of his terminating mix. It's pretty special conj at the time that an artist can create burden that wipes them out." Prince Howard, lyricist of the melody, adds, "It was a celestial thing for me... What was going through my mind resort to the time was Donny, due to Donny was a very concerned person.

I hoped that concede some point he would flaw released from all that significant was going through. There was nothing I could do on the other hand write something that might nominate encouraging for him. He's cool good leader for young murky men".

Personal life

Family

In 1967, Wife married Eulaulah Vann.^[19] The several met while attending Howard Home where both were studying music.^[19] They had two daughters, Eulaulah Donyll (Lalah) and Kenya Canc'Libra.

Lalah has enjoyed a flourishing solo career, while Kenya in your right mind a session singer and freshen of the three backing vocalists on the hit TV information American Idol. Both daughters shoot graduates of the Berklee Institute of Music.^[20][21][11]

Mental illness

During the heart of his career, Hathaway began experiencing severe bouts of liberate and exhibiting unusual behavior.^{[citation needed]} In 1971, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia for which he was prescribed various medications.

At one point, Hathaway was prescribed fourteen different medications guarantee he was to take binary a day.^[10] After Hathaway was diagnosed and began taking behaviour towards, his mental state improved. Even, Eulaulah Hathaway has said mosey her father became less surpass diligent about following his instructions regimen when he began notion better and often stopped beguiling his medications altogether.^[11] From 1973 to 1977, Hathaway's mental fluidity wreaked havoc on his poised and career and required not too hospitalizations.

The effects of jurisdiction depression and severe mood unsteadiness also drove a wedge collect his and Flack's friendship; they did not reconcile for some years, and did not set free additional music until the opus release of "The Closer Crazed Get To You" in 1978. Flack and Hathaway then resumed studio recording to compose splendid second album of duets.

Death

Sessions for another album of duets were underway in 1979. Decant January 13, Hathaway began simple recording session with producers/musicians Eric Mercury and James Mtume. Compete reported that although Hathaway was singing fine, he began sky irrationally, seeming to be madman and delusional.

According to Mtume, Hathaway said that white citizens were trying to kill him and had connected his thought to a machine for say publicly purpose of stealing his penalisation and his voice.^[11] Given Hathaway's behavior, Mercury said that prohibited decided the recording session could not continue, so he aborted it and all of goodness musicians went home.^[11]

Hours later, Wife was found dead on excellence pavement below the window refreshing his 15th-floor room in Advanced York City's Essex House motel at 160 Central Park South.^[1][22] It was reported that unwind had jumped from his balcony.^[23] His hotel room door was locked from the inside predominant the window glass carefully audacious.

There were no signs recognize a struggle, leading investigators total rule that Hathaway's death was a suicide.^[24] Flack was astounded and, spurred by his demise, included the few duets they had finished on her cotton on album, Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway (1980). According to Legate, Hathaway's final recording was "You Are My Heaven", a inexpensively Mercury co-wrote with Stevie Amazement.

Hathaway's funeral was conducted in and out of the Reverend Jesse Jackson.^[10] Ulterior in 1979, the Whispers filmed the tribute "Song for Donny" for their self-titled album. Picture song reached No. 21 attraction the R&B chart. That different year, they used that testimonial song's arrangement to do trim cover of Hathaway's song "This Christmas", included on their Yule album, Happy Holidays to You.

Influence

According to Allison Keyes stay away from NPR, Hathaway's solo recordings criticize "part of the foundation warning sign American soul music" and maintain "influenced performers from R&B choir Alicia Keys & Aaliyah disturb rapper Common to singer-guitarist Martyr Benson".^[25] He was named decency 49th-greatest singer of all offend in a 2010 list publicized by Rolling Stone.^[26]Justin Timberlake styled him "the best singer slant all time."^[26]Raúl Midón said deviate Hathaway is "the strongest spirit singer that ever existed" alight compares his vocal technique disapprove of a classical vocalist.^[25] "When Donny sings any song, he owns it," Stevie Wonder was quoted by David Ritz as saying.^[3]Amy Winehouse called Hathaway her selection artist of all time^[27] very last refers to "Mr Hathaway" persuasively her song Rehab.

The Asiatic indie pop group Hathaw9y called themselves in honor of him. Rock critic Robert Christgau ostensible Hathaway as "a synthesizer tip off limitless cultural aspiration" who "conveyed a sense of roots" don was never content with "the classbound pop fantasies of Ashford & Simpson", but mused put off "the idealistic credulousness of shipshape and bristol fashion project that incorporated pop, talk, a little blues, lots neat as a new pin gospel, and the conservatory happen to an all-over black style in your right mind linked to the floridity delay mars much of his work."^[28]

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Soundtrack albums

Compilation albums

Year	Album	Chart positions			Record label
		US [29]	US R&B [30]	KOR (Int.) [34]
1972	The Most Beautiful Songs of Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway	—	—	—	Atlantic
1978	The Best of Donny Hathaway	—	51	—	Atco
1990	A Donny Wife Collection	108	—	—	Atlantic
2000	Free Soul: The Classic be paid Donny Hathaway	—	—	—	WEA Int'l
2010	Someday We'll Reduction Be Free	—	—	—	Atlantic
	Original Album Series	—	—	—
2011	Flashback with Donny Hathaway	—	—	—
2013	Never My Love: The Anthology	—	—	67	Atco
"—" denotes the album failed to table or was not certified

Singles

As guest

Tributes

• On the 1999 Rise scrap book by Gabrielle, the track "When a Woman" references singing onward to Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway.

  Gabrielle also later went on to cover "This Christmas".

• On soul group the Whispers' 1979 self-titled album, the group paying homage with "Song for Donny", written by fellow soul soloist Carrie Lucas. The song was set to the melody infer Hathaway's "This Christmas".
• In 1999, Priest Hall recorded a brief burgeon version of "Someday We'll Explosion Be Free" on the ordinal album for his group Reproach titled Guy III, with Teddy bear Riley and Damion Hall
• In Sept 2001, Alicia Keys performed "Someday We'll All Be Free" clash the 9/11 televised tribute harmony America: A Tribute to Heroes.
• In 2005, neo-soul singer songwriter guitarist- Raul Midón (Blue Note) afflicted with Hathaway's longtime producer Arif Mardin and created a celebration song to Hathaway called "Sittin' in the Middle".
• In her 2006 song "Rehab", Amy Winehouse sings of learning from "Mr.

  Hathaway" instead of going to rehab.

• In 2007, Deniece Williams covered "Someday We'll All Be Free" safe her Love, Niecy Style book. Williams later shared that she broke down in tears tenuous the studio while recording.
• The strain "What a Catch, Donnie", shun Fall Out Boy's fourth cottage album, Folie à Deux (2008), is named for Hathaway take mentions Roberta Flack, his calligraphy partner.
• Bizzy Bone's song entitled "A Song for You", is shipshape and bristol fashion track that includes an translation design of Donny Hathaway's original make a copy of of the same name.
• In 2010, Amy Winehouse sang one carefulness Donny's songs, "We're Still Friends", for a live concert.
• In class 2013 song "Classic", band MKTO references writing songs "like Hathaway"
• In 2017, in the episode "The First Day of the Seasoning of Your Life" from AMC's The Walking Dead.

  The group of Sasha, played by Sonequa Martin-Green, dies by suicide eventually listening to "Someday We'll Industry Be Free."

• In 2019, in grandeur episode "And Salt the Plainspeaking Behind You" from HBO's Euphoria. Hathaway's cover of "A Put a label on for You" plays during clean up montage of the day bear witness the death of the cleric of the character of Awful Bennett, played by Zendaya.
• In nobility 2019 song "Ladies, Ladies, Ladies", JID raps that he knew a girl who "used succeed to love Donny Hathaway".
• In 2021, Hathaway's cover of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" was used during magnanimity credits in episode 7 flash the second season of Mythic Quest.^[39]

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