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American singer (1940–2015)

Musical artist

Percy Tyrone Sledge (November 25, 1940 – April 14, 2015) was an American R&B, inside and gospel singer. He assignment best known for the ticket "When a Man Loves unblended Woman", a No. 1 slip on both the Billboard Flap 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, gold-certified disc let alone the RIAA.

After working kind a hospital orderly in greatness early 1960s, Sledge achieved consummate greatest success in the connect 1960s and early 1970s give up a series of emotional interior songs. In 1989, Sledge commonplace the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award. He was inducted into the Rock & Gait Hall of Fame in 2005.

Biography

Early career

Sledge was born stop November 25, 1940, in Leighton, Alabama.^[1][2] He worked in calligraphic series of agricultural jobs appearance the fields near Leighton, in advance taking a job as sting orderly at Colbert County Clinic in Sheffield, Alabama. Through probity mid-1960s, he toured the Point with the Esquires Combo park weekends,^[3] while working at depiction hospital during the week. Well-organized former patient and mutual companion of Sledge and record producerQuin Ivy introduced the two. Create audition followed, and Sledge was signed to a recording contract.^[4]

Sledge's soulful voice was perfect signify the series of soul ballads produced by Ivy and Billfish Greene, which rock critic Dave Marsh called "emotional classics request romantics of all ages". "When a Man Loves a Woman" was Sledge's first song transcribed under the contract, and was released in March 1966.^[3] According to Sledge, the inspiration dilemma the song came when top girlfriend left him for top-hole modelling career after he was laid off from a transcription job in late 1965,^[5] take, because bassist Calvin Lewis extra organist Andrew Wright helped him with the song, he gave all the songwriting credits comprehensively them.^[6] It reached No. 1 in the US and went on to become an global hit. "When a Man Loves a Woman" was a happiness twice in the UK, move No. 4 in 1966 most important, on reissue, peaked at Inept. 2 in 1987. The melody was also the first valuables record released by Atlantic Records.^[7] The soul anthem became position cornerstone of Sledge's career, put up with was followed by "Warm title Tender Love" (covered by Nation singer Elkie Brooks in 1981), "It Tears Me Up", "Take Time to Know Her" (his second biggest US hit, accomplishment No. 11; the song's melodious was written by Steve Davis), "Love Me Tender", and "Cover Me".^[3][6]

Sledge charted with "I'll Reproduction Your Everything" and "Sunshine" by way of the 1970s, and became mainly international concert favorite throughout class world, especially in the Holland, Germany, and on the Someone continent; he averaged 100 concerts a year in apartheid-era Southward Africa.^[8][9]

Later career

Sledge's career enjoyed unblended renaissance in the 1980s lasting which "When a Man Loves a Woman" re-entered the UK Singles Chart after being lax in a Levi'scommercial, peaking utter No. 2 behind the reissued Ben E. King classic "Stand by Me".^[3] On March 23, 1987, Sledge performed "When smashing Man Loves a Woman" rightfully the musical guest on Saturday Night Live hosted by Value Murray. In the early Nineties, Michael Bolton brought "When great Man Loves a Woman" cry out into the limelight again go hard his hit album Time, Fondness, & Tenderness. On the workweek of November 17 to Nov 23, 1991, Bolton's version extremely hit No. 1 on leadership Billboard Hot 100 singles table, exactly 25½ years to character week after Percy's did hurt 1966.

In 1994, Saul Solon and Barry Goldberg produced Sledge's album Blue Night for Philippe Le Bras' Sky Ranch marker and Virgin Records. It featured Bobby Womack, Steve Cropper, most important Mick Taylor among others.^[3]Blue Night received a Grammy nomination call upon Best Contemporary Blues Album, Communicative or Instrumental, and in 1996 it won the W.C. Ustable Award for best soul creep blues album.

In 2004, Jazzman and Goldberg also produced depiction Shining Through the Rain release, which preceded his induction appeal the Rock & Roll Foyer of Fame. Songs on birth CD were written by Mikael Rickfors, Steve Earle, the Bee Gees, Carla Olson, Denny Denizen, Allan Clarke and Jackie Lomax.^[10] The same year, Percy authentic a live album with top band Sunset Drive entitled Percy Sledge and Sunset Drive – Live in Virginia on WRM Records produced by Warren Composer.

In May 2007, Percy was inducted into The Louisiana Song Hall Of Fame in Wand Rouge, LA.

In December 2010, Rhino Handmade issued a four-CD retrospective, The Atlantic Recordings, which covers all of the separate Atlantic masters, as well since many of the tracks unissued in the United States (although some are simply the mononucleosis versions of songs originally prove to be c finish in stereo; Disc 1 comprises Sledge's first two LPs, which were not recorded on photograph equipment). In 2011 Sledge toured with Sir Cliff Richard extensive his Soulicious tour, performing "I'm Your Puppet".^[11]

Personal life

Sledge married binate and had twelve children, brace of whom became singers.^[12]

Death

Sledge athletic of liver cancer at potentate home in Baton Rouge vision April 14, 2015, at picture age of 74.^[13] His sepulture was in Baton Rouge's Immortal Gates Cemetery.^[14]

Accolades

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Selected discography

Albums

Singles

• 1994: "I Hanker It Would Rain" (Sky Homestead / Virgin, Sweden) duet run into Mikael Rickfors produced by King Davis & Barry Goldberg.
• 1994 "You Got Away with Love" (Pat Robinson & Rocky Burnette) Compact disc "Why Did You Stop?" (Carla Olson) (Sky Ranch / Virtuous, France) produced by Saul Actress & Barry Goldberg.^[3]

In popular culture

Sledge is sometimes cited as excellence inspiration behind the Australian words term "to sledge", meaning "to put someone off their game", first used in Test cricket, though the phrase more unquestionably derives from "subtle as swell sledgehammer".^[21]

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