Biography
Teddy Pendergrass started singing gospel music in Philadelphia churches, becoming an ordained minister in ten years older. While attending general public college, he sang within the citywide McIntyre Elementary College Choir and in the All-City Stetson Junior SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Choir. A self-taught drummer, Pendergrass got a teenager pop vocal group when he was 15. By his past due teenagers, Pendergrass was a drummer for regional vocal group the Cadillacs. In the past due ’60s, the Cadillacs merged with another competent group, Harold Melvin & the Blue Records. In 1970, once the Blue Records split up, Melvin, right now alert to Pendergrass’ vocal prowess, asked him to consider the lead vocalist place. It’s no magic formula that Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff needed Marvin Junior from the Dells because of their Philadelphia International Information roster. Because the Dells had been agreed upon to Chess, these were unavailable. Once the gruff’n’ready vocals of Pendergrass emerged their method, they eagerly agreed upon the group. You start with “I Miss You,” a reliable stream of strike singles flowed through the cooperation of Pendergrass and Gamble & Huff: “UNLESS YOU Know Me right now,” “The Appreciate I Shed,” “MISFORTUNE,” “AWAKEN Everybody” (number 1 R&B for 14 days in 1976), and two yellow metal albums, TO BECOME True and AWAKEN Everybody. Unfortunately, the greater achievement the group got, the greater friction created between Melvin and Pendergrass. Regardless of the modified billing of the group, Harold Melvin & the Blue Records offering Theodore Pendergrass, Pendergrass sensed that he wasn’t obtaining enough reputation. Around 1976, Pendergrass still left Melvin’s Blue Records and shaped his very own Blue Records, offering Teddy Pendergrass. Quickly, there is some confusion concerning which Blue Records had been which. The quality arrived when Pendergrass disbanded his Blue Records and only a solo profession and Melvin’s group authorized a documenting contract with Resource Information, distributed through ABC Information, scoring popular with “I wish to Be YOUR COMPANION.” Pendergrass authorized a new agreement with Philadelphia International Information in past due 1976/early 1977. He burst back again on the picture with Teddy Pendergrass, a platinum single debut that included the top-notch singles “I Don’t Like You Anymore,” “You Can’t Cover from Yourself,” and “THE GREATER I Obtain the More I’D LIKE.” For this period, Pendergrass started to institute his infamous “Women Just” concerts. His following three albums proceeded to go platinum or platinum: Existence Is a Track Worth Performing (1978), Teddy (1979), and Teddy Live (Coastline to Coastline). The strike single “Close the entranceway” was found in the film Soup for just one, where Pendergrass experienced a small part. The vocalist received many Grammy nominations during 1977 and 1978, Billboard’s 1977 Pop Recording New Designer Award, an American Music Award for greatest R&B performer of 1978, and honours from Ebony publication as well as the NAACP. He was also in concern for the business lead in the film biopic The Otis Redding Tale. The ’70s finished, but Pendergrass held accumulating the strikes. TP, his 5th solo album, proceeded to go platinum in the summertime of 1980 from the singles “SWITCH OFF the Lamps,” “Arrive Opt for Me,” “Shout and Scream,” “It’s You I REALLY LIKE,” and “Can’t We Try.” It’s Period for Love offered Pendergrass another platinum album in summer time 1981, including the strike singles “Appreciate TKO” and “I CANNOT Live Without Your Appreciate.” A 1982 car crash still left Pendergrass paralyzed through the waistline down and wheelchair-bound. After nearly per year of physical therapy and guidance, Pendergrass returned towards the documenting picture, signing a agreement with Elektra/Asylum in 1983. His ninth single record and Elektra/Asylum debut, Appreciate Language went yellow metal the springtime of 1984. Philadelphia International released two albums of unreleased paths, This One’s for you personally (1982) and Heaven Just Knows (1983). Various other albums included Workin’ It Back again (1985), Pleasure (1988, whose name track visited number 1 R&B for 14 days), and BIT MORE Magic (1993). The last mentioned half of the ’90s discovered Pendergrass documenting for the Surefire/Blowing wind Up label. Truly Blessed, the name of the 1991 Elektra record, can be the title from the autobiography Pendergrass co-authored with Patricia Romanowski. Aside from an appearance in a 2007 wedding ceremony kept in his honor, Pendergrass spent his old age from the limelight. He had problems recovering from cancer of the colon surgery and passed on on January 13, 2010.
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Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Southside with You | 2016 | performer: "Close the Door" | |
Concussion | 2015 | performer: "Love T.K.O.", "Close The Door" | |
Too Late | 2015/I | performer: "You're My Choice Tonight Choose Me" | |
Dog Food | 2014 | Short performer: "Love T.K.O." - as Teddy Pendegrass | |
A Lyrical Love | 2013 | Short performer: "Close the Door" | |
How Do You Know | 2010 | performer: "Turn Off The Lights" | |
How to Make It in America | 2010 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Ugly Betty | 2007 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Eye See Me | 2007 | performer: "Love TKO" | |
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories | 2006 | Video Game performer: "Love TKO" | |
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power | 2005 | Video performer: "Wake Up Everybody" | |
Indigo Prophecy | 2005 | Video Game performer: "Love T.K.O." | |
Alfie | 2004 | performer: "Love T.K.O." 1978 | |
Undercover Brother | 2002 | performer: "Close the Door" | |
40 Days and 40 Nights | 2002 | performer: "Turn Off the Lights" | |
The Ladies Man | 2000 | performer: "Turn Off the Lights" | |
Follow Your Heart | 1999 | performer: "You & I" | |
The Nutty Professor | 1996 | performer: "Close the Door" | |
The Power of One | 1992 | performer: "The Power of One" | |
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane | 1990 | performer: "Glad to Be Alive" | |
D.A.R.Y.L. | 1985 | performer: "Somewhere I Belong" | |
Miami Vice | 1984 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Choose Me | 1984 | performer: "Choose Me You're My Choice Tonight", "And If I Had", "In My Time" | |
Soup for One | 1982 | performer: "DREAM GIRL" | |
WKRP in Cincinnati | 1982 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Merv Griffin Show | 1980 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Roadie | 1980 | performer: "Can't We Try" / producer: "Can't We Try" |
Actor
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Teddy Pendergrass | 2002 | Video | Artist |
Soup for One | 1982 | Night Club Singer |
Thanks
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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18th Annual Trumpet Awards | 2010 | TV Special in memory of |
Self
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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VH1 Rock Docs | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
Testimonies of Faith: Humble Journey's | 2007 | Documentary | |
Five Conversations About Soul | 2003 | Video documentary | Himself |
Behind the Music | 1997 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Live with Kelly and Michael | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
New York Undercover | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 1993 | TV Series | Himself |
Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame | 1993 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
The 5th Annual Soul Train Music Awards | 1991 | TV Special | Himself - Performer |
The 31st Annual Grammy Awards | 1989 | TV Special | Himself |
The Arsenio Hall Show | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
Ebony/Jet Showcase | 1986-1988 | TV Series | Himself |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1986 | TV Series | Himself |
The 13th Annual American Music Awards | 1986 | TV Special | Himself |
Live Aid | 1985 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
Lou Rawls Parade of Stars | 1982 | TV Series | Himself |
Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters | 1981 | TV Series | Himself |
The 8th Annual American Music Awards | 1981 | TV Special | Himself - Host |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1977-1980 | TV Series | Himself - Vocalist / Himself / Himself - Co-Host |
Kids Are People, Too | 1980 | TV Series | Himself |
Soul Train | 1972-1980 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Guest |
The John Davidson Show | 1980 | TV Series | Himself |
The Merv Griffin Show | 1980 | TV Series | Himself |
Men Who Rate a 10 | 1980 | TV Special | Himself |
Pink Lady | 1980 | TV Series | Himself |
Morning in Philadelphia | 1980 | TV Series | Himself |
The 6th Annual American Music Awards | 1979 | TV Special | Himself - Host |
The Midnight Special | 1978 | TV Series | Himself |
Dinah! | 1977 | TV Series | Himself |
New American Bandstand 1965 | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
Unsung | 2010 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
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