Donny Hathaway Donny Hathaway

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• Donny Hathaways oeuvre spanned only three years and five records. He was a composer, arranger and singer who suffered from depression and was a maestro when out of the limelight. He was a recording producer at Curtis Mayfields Curtom Label, composed soundtracks, worked with King Curtis, Leroy Hutson and even Willie Nelson; he landed a couple of fairly average hits, and sounded like a mixture of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder in a nutshell devilishly good!!! In spite of all this, he was not a happy man and in January 1979 the emotionally unstable artist was found dead in front of his hotel.

  With just one exception, his second album consists entirely of cover versions. As one of the most pop-averse soul singers he performed contemporary hits such as “A Song For You”, “He Aint Heavy, Hes