Barry White Suffers Stroke

According to his daughter, singer Barry White is in good spirits as he continues his recovery from a stroke that affected his speech and the right side of his body.

The fifty-eight-year-old soul icon suffered the stroke earlier this month while waiting for a kidney transplant necessitated by years of chronic high blood pressure. In 1999, White had to cancel several tour dates in support of his most recent album, the Grammy-winning Staying Power, when he was hospitalized as a result of the condition.

Before he can go through with the kidney transplant, White's condition needs to stabilize.

Still, his daughter calls the stroke a minor setback, and says her father will perform again.

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Song Stories

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry | 1984

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.

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