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Donny Hathaway

  • Grammys 2019: Chloe x Halle Pay Tribute to Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack With 'Where Is the Love' Cover

    Sister act are first-time nominees at tonight's ceremony

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  • Donny Hathaway: Two Rarities From New Anthology - Song Premiere

    Hear previously unreleased versions of 'Don't Turn Away' and 'You've Got a Friend'

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  • These Songs For You, Live!

    Voices such as Donny Hathaway's come along maybe once a decade. Before his brief but influential career was cut short by suicide in 1979, Hathaway proved himself a maestro of protest soul who effused equal amounts of political anger and romantic tenderness. Culled from several early-Seventies concerts, These Songs for You, Live! displays the passion […]

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  • Extensions Of A Man

    Like Stevie Wonder's Music of My Mind, Donny Hathaway's Extensions of a Man, produced by Arif Mardin, is an ambitious breakthrough album that significantly broadens the musical palette of a major black artist, fulfilling in large measure promises long-offered. But whereas Wonder has lately concentrated on expanding the textural definitions of R&B as it has […]

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  • Donny Hathaway

    Donny Hathaway is one of the most important black performers to emerge in recent years. Important in the sense that Isaac Hayes, Sly Stone, Funkadelic/Parliament or the Last Poets are important: influential (for better or worse), far-ranging and possessed of a unique, new style. Hathaway had already completed brilliant work as producer, arranger, composer, musician […]

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