Music Music News•June 9, 2026 at 5:55 PMNational

Peabo Bryson obituary

By Adam Sweeting•The Guardian Music

Singer of 70s and 80s hits including Tonight, I Celebrate My Love who broke through to a huge new audience with duets for Disney filmsPeabo Bryson, who has died aged 75 after a stroke, earned himself the nickname of the Voice of Love, thanks to his smooth and mellifluous singing and his string of memorable duets with female singers, including Roberta Flack, Natalie Cole and Minnie Riperton. He credited Flack with giving him the key to the art of duetting.“I think the secret to a really good duet is that you have to fall a little bit in love with your duet partner,” he told Tatler Asia in 2015. “I was very fortunate in finding a duet partner in Roberta Flack who really knew what a duet was, and knew how to play to a person’s strengths and weaknesses equally. I learned how to do a great duet from working with Roberta Flack because she’s that great.” Continue reading...

Singer of 70s and 80s hits including Tonight, I Celebrate My Love who broke through to a huge new audience with duets for Disney films

Peabo Bryson, who has died aged 75 after a stroke, earned himself the nickname of the Voice of Love, thanks to his smooth and mellifluous singing and his string of memorable duets with female singers, including Roberta Flack, Natalie Cole and Minnie Riperton. He credited Flack with giving him the key to the art of duetting.

“I think the secret to a really good duet is that you have to fall a little bit in love with your duet partner,” he told Tatler Asia in 2015. “I was very fortunate in finding a duet partner in Roberta Flack who really knew what a duet was, and knew how to play to a person’s strengths and weaknesses equally. I learned how to do a great duet from working with Roberta Flack because she’s that great.”

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