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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Robert Peapo "Peabo" Bryson is an American singer and songwriter. He is known for singing soul ballads including the 1983 hit "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" with Roberta Flack. Bryson has contributed to two Disney animated feature soundtracks. Bryson is a winner of two Grammy Awards.
I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.
I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.
I'm not angry at anyone.
I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
I have to choose songs that represent my personality.
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.
If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.
I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.
It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.
Trends don't mean very much.
I think you create your own hipness.
Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.
In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.
I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.
There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.
Trends don't mean very much to me. They come, they go, they turn around.
But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.