He entered the studio to shake. Until then only sung on weekends in bars and had never been in a recording studio. “The melody was that I used to sing while working in the cotton fields. I let myself go and took the echo that reminded me,” said Percy Sledge on his debut studio. For the recording room came as a nurse, off, even if he did not know, it was star of soul. The tapes had left When a Man Loves Woman , its most successful and one of the most outstanding songs of the soul. Percy Sledge died yesterday aged 73.
Black and born in 1941 in Louisiana, Percy Sledge could have been just another working in the cotton fields. However, as noted in the documentary Muscle Shoals, when they heard him sing older ensured that one day the world you also hear the voice. “I never believed it,” he said. And your life proves it, or had not changed by Leighton Sheffield not to make career to sing, but to work as a nurse at the local hospital. Still, it would take care of patients who would have his chance. “I sang them to fall asleep, gave me a great joy. One day I was invited to sing in a bar and, luckily, the Quin Ivy heard,” he said. The story was soon to happen. DJ on local radio, Ivy offered immediately to put the voice of Percy Sledge disk. The rest happened at a speed that no one expected. Recorded in 1966, When a Man Loves a Woman immediately rose to the top of the Billboard charts Pop and R &. B
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