Peabo Bryson obituary

Singer of 70s and 80s hits including Tonight, I Celebrate My Love who broke through to a huge new audience with duets for Disney films Peabo Bryson, who has died aged 75 after a stroke, earned himself the nickname of the Voice of Love, thanks to his smooth and mellifluous singing and his string of memorable duets with female singers, including Roberta Flack , Natalie Cole and Minnie Riperton . He credited Flack with giving him the key to the art of duetting. “I think the secret to a really good duet is that you have to fall a little bit in love with your duet partner,” he told Tatler Asia in 2015. “I was very fortunate in finding a duet partner in Roberta Flack who really knew what a duet was, and knew how to play to a person’s strengths and weaknesses equally. I learned how to do a great duet from working with Roberta Flack because she’s that great.” Continue reading...