ArtistInfo

Donny Hathaway

voc, p, ep, 1945-1979 US, Chicago
Singer / Musician / Composer / Arranger / Producer of Jazz
A.k.a. Donny Edward Hathaway Donny Pitts

Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an American jazz, blues, soul, and gospel vocalist and musician. Hathaway contracted with Atlantic Records in 1969 and with his first single for the Atco label, "The Ghetto, Part I" in early 1970, Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music." His collaborations with Roberta Flack scored high on the charts and won him the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for the duet, "Where Is the Love" in 1973. At the height of his career Hathaway was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was known to not take his prescribed medication regularly enough to properly control his symptoms.[citation needed] On January 13, 1979, Hathaway's body was found outside the luxury hotel Essex

Instruments

• Vocals
• Piano
• Electric piano
• Keyboards
• Organ

Genres

• Jazz
• R&B/Soul
• Pop

Plays With