February is Black History Month. It is also the month of Valentine’s Day.
My first blog entry for February 2019 combines both as a singer—with a powerful and romantic voice—I grew up listening to, from the 1980s, died this past Tuesday, January 29, 2019.
Two-time Grammy winner James Ingram died, at age 66, from brain cancer. (Here is a report: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/rb-star-james-ingram-dies-at-66-1203122641/.)
Ingram, born February 16, 1952, in Akron, Ohio, was more prominent during the 1980s. He recorded on Quincy Jones’s album, The Dude, and received a 1981 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist before recording an album of his own. Ingram went on to become a solo artist starting with It’s Your Night in 1983.
In 1990, he teamed with producer Thom Bell (who won Grammys’ first Producer of the Year, for 1974) to record Ingram’s sole No. 1 Billboard hit, “I Don’t Have the Heart.” It garnered Ingram a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. That year’s release of Jones’s Back on the Black, which went to win the Album of the Year Grammy for 1990, featured Ingram collaborating with Barry White, Al B. Sure, and El Debarge on “The Secret Garden.”
As one of the co-writers, Ingram received a 1993 Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for “The Day I Fall in Love,” from Beethoven 2. One year later, and again as one of its co-writers, Ingram received a 1994 Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for “Look What Love Has Done,” from Junior.
James Ingram won two Grammys: 1981 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for “One Hundred Ways,” one of the tracks from Quincy Jones’s Album of the Year nominee The Dude; and 1984 Best Duo or Group R&B Vocal Performance, for his terrific collaboration with Michael McDonald, for “Yah Mo B There.”
Here are some videos:
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