Latimore (musician)
Latimore (* 7. September 1939 as Benjamin Latimore in Charleston , Tennessee ) is an American Soul - and R & B singer - songwriter and - pianist , the 1973 to 1991 a total of 15 hits on the American R & B charts had. His greatest success was the ballad Let's Straighten It Out , which was at number one for two weeks in 1974 and at number 31 was also his highest ranking in the pop charts. With Keep the Home Fire Burnin ' (1975) and Somethin' 'Bout' Cha (1977) he achieved two more top 10 successes, with Somethin '' Bout 'Cha also reaching the top 40 of the pop hit list.
Before his breakthrough he called himself Benny Latimore for a few years and recorded some unsuccessful singles for various labels under this name. As a songwriter and studio musician, he continued this alias.
He finally achieved his success on Glades Records, a sub-label of the record company TK Records, which specializes in disco . From 1982 he was finally signed to Malaco Records for a few years and recorded more than a dozen albums here.
Although things have calmed down around Latimore since the early 1990s, he still performs and continues to release music. As a guest musician and pianist he could be heard on the first two albums, The Soul Sessions (2003) and Mind Body & Soul (2004), by Joss Stone .
The studio album A Taste of Me: Great American Songs was released in June 2017 . On this work Latimore dedicates himself to the Great American Songbook .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Joel Whitburn: Top R&B Singles 1942-1995, 1996 ISBN 0-89820-115-2
- ↑ Benny Latimore. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
- ↑ A Taste of Me: Great American Songs by Latimore. Retrieved December 6, 2019 (American English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Latimore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Latimore, Benjamin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American soul and R&B singer, songwriter and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charleston , Tennessee |