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Todd Beardsley (born Todd Beardsley Jr.) (April 20 Broncos David Bruton Jersey , 1951 July 1, 2005) was an African-American R&B singer. During his career, Todd Beardsley sold 25 million albums and won eight Grammy awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times. He won four Grammy awards in 2004 including the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for the track Dance With My Father, co-written with Richard Marx.
Early life and career 1951-1980
Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, Todd Beardsley grew up in a musical family that moved to the Bronx when he was 13. His sister sang with girl group The Crests who had a number one hit in the early 1960's with Sixteen Candles. Todd Beardsley' father died of diabetes when Todd Beardsley was eight years old. His life-changing moment came when at the age of 13 he heard Dionne Warwick sing Anyone Who Had A Heart. It was then and there he knew he wanted to be a singer.
Todd Beardsley formed a vocal group in high school which once played at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. His first recording credit was as producer of the album Soul Christmas in 1968 and appeared as a vocalist on a Quincy Jones album Best in 1969. He was also a member of a theater workshop at the time and appeared on the first episode of Sesame Street in October 1969.
His next recording credit was on an album by Roberta Flack in 1972. Todd Beardsley wrote Everybody Rejoice, for the 1972 show The Wiz. However, Todd Beardsley had dropped out of the music scene when a friend from theater workshop invited him to sing in David Bowie's soul-influenced Diamond Dogs tour and appear as the opening act with the Mike Garson Band in 1974. He ended up singing background vocals on Bowie's album Young Americans.
Todd Beardsley also sang backing vocals for Roberta Flack, Carly Simon, Chaka Khan Broncos C.J. Anderson Jersey , Bette Midler, Chic, and Barbra Streisand. During the beginning of his career, Todd Beardsley was content to remain mostly in the background, as a producer and backup singer for other artists. Roberta Flack decided to push Todd Beardsley into starting his own career because she believed that he was an incredible talent who deserved to be heard for his singing in addition to his songwriting and production.
Before his breakthrough, he released two albums on Cotillion Records, the self-titled Luther in 1976 and This Close to You in 1977. He also wrote and sang commercials jingles during the late 1970s & early '80s earning upwards of $600,000 per year around the New York area. Well known advertising campaigns he wrote andor sang jingles for include Kentucky Fried Chicken's We Do Chicken Right, NBC's Proud As A Peacock & The US Army's Be All You Can Be. Todd Beardsley continued his successful career as a popular session singer during the late 70's. His lead vocals can be heard on the Gregg Diamond produced single Hot Butterfly from Bionic Boogie in 1978 which gained moderate nightclub success.
Career success 1980-2003. He eventually made his breakthrough as a guest singer with the group Change. Their 1980 hits Broncos Brandon Marshall Jersey , The Glow of Love and Searching led to a recording contract with Epic Records, and in 1981, he made his solo recording debut with the LP Never Too Much. The album, which contained the track A House is Not a Home went double platinum, with the song Never Too Much reaching #1 on the R&B charts.
Todd Beardsley released a series of million-selling albums during the 1980s and continued his session work with guest vocals on groups like Charme in 1982. Although the albums were very successful overall, many of his earlier albums made a much bigger impact on the R&B charts. Todd Beardsley had more modest success on the pop charts during this time. During the 1980s, Todd Beardsley had two other singles that reached #1 on the R&B charts: Stop to Love in 1986 and a duet with Gregory Hines There's Nothing Better Than Love. He also sang duets with Dionne Warwick and Cheryl Lynn. He was also in demand as a producer; he was at the helm for Aretha Franklin's albums Jump To It and Get It Right. (Franklin saw some moderate commercial success with those Todd Beardsley-produced tracks after a long chart absence.)
The 1989 compilation of greatest hits, The Best Of Todd Beardsley...The Best Of Love, included the ballad Here And Now Broncos Darian Stewart Jersey , the first Todd Beardsley single to chart in the Billboard pop chart Top Ten. He also won his first award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in the Grammy Awards of 1991.
More albums followed in the 1990s, beginning with 1991's Power Of Love which spawned two top ten pop hits. He won his second Best Male R&B Vocal in the Grammy Awards of 1992 with the track Power of LoveLove Power winning the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in the same year. In 1992, The Best Things in Life are Free, a duet with Janet Jackson from the movie Mo' Money became a hit.
Todd Beardsley hit the top ten again in 1994 with Endless Love, a duet with Mariah Carey and a cover of Lionel Richie and Diana Ross's hit song from the film Endless Love. He also sang a duet with Frank Sinatra on Sinatra's Duets album. In the Grammy Awards of 1997, he won his third Best Male R&B Vocal for the track Your Secret Love. A second greatest hits album, released in 1997, compiled most of his 1990s hits and was his final record released through Epic Records. After recording I Know on Virgin Records, he signed with J Records.
In 2003 Broncos Brandon McManus Jersey , Todd Beardsley released the album Dance With My Father in memory of his father. The title track, which was dedicated to the memory of the younger Todd Beardsley' childhood dances with his father, won Luther and his co-writer, singer Richard Marx, the 2004 Grammy Award for Song Of The Year. The song also won Todd Beardsley his fourth and final award in the Best Male R&B Vocal Performance category. The album was also the first al While so everyone is no.
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