Bobby Womack

Robert " Bobby" Dwayne Womack ( born March 4, 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American singer and songwriter. His music style is soul and R & B with the greatest successes in the 1970s and 1980s.

Life

His father, who was also a gospel music, the career of Bobby and his brother Cecil. Together, they formed their own band under the name Womack Brothers. They were discovered by Sam Cooke, who procured them the early 1960s, a record deal for Cooke's SAR Records. Sam Cooke Womack led to a less stressed by church music, more commercial direction and named the band in The Valentinos. Your first minor hit was 1964 Single It's All Over Now, their cover version by the Rolling Stones was such a huge success that Womack could use some time to live well by the royalties.

After the death of Sam Cooke in 1964, married Bobby Womack and the young widow Barbara Cooke. The marriage caused a minor scandal. This expanding, as his younger brother Cecil married the daughter of Sam Cooke, Linda.

On 31 December 1975 Bobby married his second wife Regina bank. He got a contract with Columbia Records in early 1976. In 1981, he joined the label Beverly Glen, where he recorded the album The Poet. After a successful legal battle with Beverly Glen due to the absence of royalty payments Womack changed in 1985 to MCA. In 1986 he worked with the Rolling Stones at their album Dirty Work and sang the duet with Mick Jagger Harlem Shuffle. In 1997, he published again christian inspired music (Back to my roots ). 2012 his cancer disease became public. Early 2013, Womack announced in an interview that he was suffering from Alzheimer 's disease.

Music

Bobby Womack's music has the very elegant, restrained and understated acting as rhythm guitar line and his acting excited and passionate solo voice a high recognition value.

Bobby Womack worked from about 1965 mainly as a studio musician and producer in chips Momans American Recording Sound Studios in Memphis (Tennessee ) for other bands, until he stand from 1968 with original songs like What Is This, It's Gonna Rain and More Than I Can, the first solo hits landed. Beginning of the seventies moved to United Artists Womack and there released his first album Communication. During this time he wrote the song Breezin ', with the George Benson landed a hit.

Further hit singles in the seventies were lookin 'for a Love, Across 110th Street ( soundtrack to the blaxploitation film and Jackie Brown), Woman's Gotta Have It, You're Welcome, Stop on By and Daylight. In 1981 Womack his successful album poet with the hit single If You Think You're Lonely Now.

In addition to a best-of album in 1993 Bobby Womack had been able to record any more major successes since the early eighties. In the 1994 released album "Resurrection" to give guest musicians such as Rod Stewart, Keith Richards and Stevie Wonder honor. he mainly worked as a producer and was occasionally seen in live performances. According to reports his daughter GinaRe he lost at times completely, interest in his musical work.

Bobby Womack was not until 2010 came from his creative crisis: Damon Albarn of the British band Gorillaz contacted Womack to win it for use on the planned album Plastic Beach. Womack then played together with the Gorillaz and Mos Def Stylo a title that appeared as the first single from the album two months before the album. In another title of the album, Cloud of Unknowing, Womack can also be heard. Albarn returned the favor a short time later with Richard Russell, The Bravest Man in which they are produced with him In The Universe, after 18 years of Womack's first new album. It appeared in 2012 and was a great success: the album came in at number 36 of the top albums of 2012 Rolling Stone, and won the Q Award for Best Album 2012 In Title Dayglo Reflection acted as a duet partner Lana Del Rey. .

Trivia

Mariah Carey sang in her 2005 number 1 hit We Belong Together a text phrase that goes something like " I can not sleep at night when you're in my thoughts. Bobby Womack on the radio and sing to me, 'If you think you 're lonely now .' ":

In the opening and closing credits of the film Jackie Brown 1997 director Quentin Tarantino uses the song Across 110th Street, which led along with the film songs of the group The Delfonics to a small renaissance of soul music.

The song Across 110th Street is originally from the gleichmaligem crime drama starring Anthony Quinn in 1972, but is included on modern soundtracks like American Gangster.

In a promotional film of the car brand Saab 2003 is an excerpt from Bobby Womack is alluded California Dreamin '.

Discography (excerpt)

• Fly Me to the Moon (1968 )
• What Is This / What You Gonna Do ( When Your Love Is Gone ) ( 1968)
• My prescription (1969)
• How I Miss You Baby / Tried and Convicted (1969 )
• More Than I Can Stand / Arkansas State Prison (1970 )
• Everybody's Talkin '/ Something ( 1970)
• Communication ( 1971)
• Understanding ( 1972)
• Across 110th Street / Hang On in There ( Soundtrack) (1972 )
• Facts of Life (1973 )
• Safety Zone (1975 )
• BW Goes C & W ( 1976)
• Daylight / Trust Me (1976 )
• The Poet (1981 )
• The Poet II ( 1984)
• Womagic (1986)
• The Last Soul Man (1987 )
• Midnight Mover: The Bobby Womack Collection ( 1993)
• Ressurection (1994 )
• Traditions (1999)
• Back to My Roots ( 1999)
• The bravest one in the universe (2012 )