Donny Hathaway (Unsung: Part 4)

Donny Hathaway was a Prolific Song Writer and Music Composer of the Fabulous Soul Music Era. Donny's rise to Soul Music Prominence made him the standard bearer for today's R&B Male vocalist. Indeed Donny Hathaway is responsible for creating and influencing today's modern R&B vocal style for ALL male vocalist of our time. Before Donny Hathaway, no R&B male singer or performer was singing riffs, incorporating high notes or bringing down the house with soulful, melodic vocals. Donny Hathaway was the FIRST to do it...................not Lurther Vandross, not Stevie Wonder, Not even Marvin Gaye.

Singers like Usher, Neyo, Chris Brown, Boyz II Men, Jodeci, Dru Hill, Musiq Soulchild, Anthony Hamilton, Lyfe and so many others copy the vocal styles and even tonality that DONNY HATHAWAY created. Without Donny Hathaway, there would truly be NO SOUL AND NO R&B!!!!!!

We pay honor to Donny Hathaway with this rare documentary about the MUSICAL Genuise of our lifetime..............................Mr. Donny Hathaway...................The KING OF R&B!!!!

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• donny hathaway
• lelah hathaway
• phyllis hyman
• unsung
• aretha franklin
• curtis mayfield
• motown
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[yeshiva83]

I wish we could find more live footage of him.

[cooperyahoo]

Thxs Deena!

[xavier0683]

Love Donny Hathaway....very underrated artist. It is a shame this generation is not aware of his genius!

[OldskolFan]

That can very well be true because cannibus is an hallucinogenic and they damage the CNS much like LSD. There is some research on this but not intensely studied.

[laceydays1]

this makes me so sad. loved this man's music and never knew what happened with him. bless your heart donny...thank you for the music that was the background to my life at the time...

[beezaxe]

@skelly2212008 Trust me, I know that it does. My OCD, GAD and Bipolar disorder became far more severe after smoking for a few months. I'm not demonising marijuana; I love marijuana, but people always say that it's harmless when they're just as uninformed as the anti-drug zealots. Marijuana is known to speed up the process and severity of Schizoaffective disorder and Bipolar disorder. Everything has its cons, it's not a bad thing.

[skelly2212008]

@beezaxe sorry, but that's just not true. marijuana can't be "known" as anything when it hasn't been honestly studied, only demonized & is prescribed FOR mental illness.

sorry.

[beezaxe]

@skelly2212008 It really isn't. Marijuana is known to exacerbate mental illness.

[redrockballa]

is the song called "you are my heaven" that he recorded last? because why did it sound like dude say "you are my helen" smh

LORD HELP US

[journey344]

love you Donny!

[skelly2212008]

@beezaxe hear you on the onset age of schizophrenia - but the connection to marijuana is a myth. sorry.

[skelly2212008]

@beezaxe