Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes via last.fm

Renowned R&B singer, Teddy Pendergrass, who started his career with “Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes”, died on Wednesday at the age of sixty. He died in the same Hospital in Pennsylvania in which he was born. He was also known with the nick name of Teddy Bear. Initially he got his fame as a lead singer of famous American band “Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes”; afterward he continued his flourishing solo career.

The most famous love ballads he sang were “Love TKO” , “Turn Off the Lights”, “I Don’t Love You Anymore” and “The More I Get the More I Want”. He became a sex symbol as an R & B singer in the 1970s and ’80s with his dynamic, masculine voice and zealous and passionate love ballads and afterward became a motivating and inspirational personality after a destructive car accident that that made his life stuck.

Lisa Barbaris, a close friend of Teddy Pendergrass said that his death was the result of his continuous long illness due to the complication from his car accident. His much-loved family was with him at the time of his death. Though he was in the Hospital for his illness and his death was not sudden and unexpected but his family is still in shock.

The world has lost one of the most beautiful and enchanted voices and singers. He recorded five successive multi-platinum albums as a first black singer. His successful concerts were the evidence of women’s attraction and adulation to his voice.