White Music: The Barry White Story - Hardcover

Rubython, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0990619923 ISBN 13: 9780990619925

Publisher: Myrtle Press, 2018

Synopsis

White Music is the first full length biography of the maestro, Barry White. White was born in Galveston in 1944. Melvin White, Barry's father, was already married with two children of his own; something of which his mother Sadie Carter had no knowledge. Sadie and baby Barry soon returned to Los Angeles where a brother Darryl joined the family 16 months later.
She and her two sons made the best of their lives and lived happily in the Watts area of Los Angeles. As soon as he could walk and talk Barry displayed a musical bent, while Darryl became a young thug, terrorising the neighbours.

Sadie bought a piano, then a gramophone to help her son develop. He dazzled the church choir with his talents and was running it by the age of 12.

Barry's life changed forever when his voice broke at 14. And from that moment, armed with a voice like no one else on the planet, he began a 15-year struggle to make it as a professional musician. Along the way he went to prison, got married, fathered five children and got divorced. Then he met his second wife Glodean and suddenly the path forward became clear. His first hit record was for his girl band, Love Unlimited. It was called Walking In The Rain With The One I Love. It was the song that made Barry White. His solo career took off after he got together with arranger, Gene Page and recorded an album called I've Got So Much To Give followed by Stone Gon' and Can't Get Enough. The albums made Barry White an international star and gave him the hit single that defined his life - You're The First, The Last, My Everything.

For the next five years Barry White produced hit album after hit album for himself, Love Unlimited and the Love Unlimited Orchestra establishing him as one of the greats of music. He continued to perform around the world playing to huge audiences until his death in 2003 at the age of 58.

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About the Author

Tom Rubython is best known as the author of Life of Senna, the definitive biography of Brazilian race driver Ayrton Senna. Life of Senna has become the biggest-selling third party biography of a racing driver, with 100,000 copies sold. Six years after its publication, it still sells over 8,000 copies a year. Before beginning as a biographer, Rubython was well known in the world of magazine publishing, spanning the worlds of sport and business. Aside from his work in Formula One, he has been a specialist business writer for thirty years. In business, he is the former editor of BusinessAge, EuroBusiness and Spectator Business. In sport, he has edited F1 Magazine, BusinessF1 and SportsPro. Rubython now specialises in non-fiction storytelling. He is passionate and methodical about the process of writing and researching the definitive biography. Starting out with a determination to tell the full story of a person's life, he emphasises what is important and de-emphasises what is not; the crucial tools of any biographer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Myrtle Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0990619923
• ISBN 13: 9780990619925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 602