Sean Levert

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The other side
  US 146 07/15/1995 (1 week)

Sean Levert (* 28. September 1968 in Cleveland , Ohio ; † 30th March 2008 ) was a US -American Contemporary R & B singer.

biography

Sean Levert was born in September 1968 to the soul singer Eddie Levert . Together with his two years older brother Gerald Levert and Marc Gordon, he founded the R&B trio LeVert in the mid-1980s . Until the breakup in the 1990s, the three of them released a total of eight albums.

While his brother tried early on for a solo career, Sean Levert only started an attempt in 1995 with the album Other Side . The album reached number 146 in the US album charts and number 4 in the Heatseekers (the category for newcomers). The two singles Put Your Body Where Your Mouth Is and Same One only made it to the R&B charts.

In 2008 Levert was sentenced to 22 months in prison for failing to support his three children. On March 30, 2008, a week after serving his sentence, Levert was admitted to hospital in Ohio with high blood pressure and hallucinations , where he died that same day at the age of 39. Sarcoid was given as the cause of death .

Discography

album

  • The Other Side (1995)

Singles

  • Put Your Body Where Your Mouth Is (1995)
  • Same One (1995)
  • Place to Be

swell

  1. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7
  2. ↑ Chart discography (Allmusic)

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personal data
SURNAME Levert, Sean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American contemporary R&B singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2008
Place of death Cleveland , Ohio