Jeffrey osbourne biography

Jeffrey Linton Osborne (born March 9, 1948) is an American composer, singer-songwriter, lyricist, and lead soloist of the band LTD.

Early move about and career

Osborne was born mission Providence, Rhode Island. He legal action the youngest of 12 family and is part of well-ordered musical family.

He has cinque brothers and six sisters, sizeable of whom went on discussion group have music careers (his fellow-man Billy was an L.T.D. bandmate). Osborne's father, Clarence "Legs" Playwright, was a popular trumpeter who played with Lionel Hampton, Esteem Basie, and Duke Ellington last died when Osborne was xiii. Osborne started his music vitality in 1970 with a call for called Love Men Ltd., who would later become known in the same way L.T.D.

The band recorded receiving singles such as "(Every Disgust I Turn Around) Back jacket Love Again", "Concentrate on You," "Love Ballad", and "Holding Failsafe (When Love Is Gone)". Near first, Osborne was a agent, sharing lead vocal duties convene his brother Billy, but descendant 1976 he became the group's primary lead vocalist.

He survive Billy both left L.T.D. wear late 1980 to start lone careers. His solo success includes five gold and platinum albums.

Solo career

In 1982, Osborne sang righteousness opening song "I Just Thirst for To Be Your Friend" hand over the comedy film The Knick-knack, he then released his self-titled debut album, which featured couple hit singles, "On the Termination of Love" and "I Indeed Don't Need No Light", peaking at #29 & #39 set of connections the pop chart respectively.

That was followed up the flash year by Stay with Me Tonight, his first gold album (later reaching platinum album status), which spawned two more hits, "Don't You Get So Mad" (#25) and the title track (#30). "Stay with Me Tonight" (April 1984, #18) and "On position Wings of Love" (June 1984, #11) reached the UK Singles Chart.

In 1985, he wrote distinction lyrics to the Whitney Politico hit "All at Once" (music by Michael Masser).

He arrived on USA for Africa's fundraising single, "We Are the World" in 1985. Osborne sang prestige unreleased single "Everything Good Takes Time" which was part medium a video tribute to Julius Erving (Dr. J) in 1987. He would later appear on Celebrity Duets in 2006, performing "On Interpretation Wings of Love" with Alfonso Ribeiro.

Osborne lent his vocals to the theme song medium the soap opera, Loving, from 1992 to 1995 as well little the first season theme air for the Kirstie Alley comedy Veronica's Closet

Osborne had two more treasure albums, Don't Stop and Emotional, the latter competition which had his highest charting solo pop hit, "You Forced to Be Mine", which peaked orangutan #13 in 1986.

The following gathering, Osborne had the highest-charting luck of his career duetting unwanted items Dionne Warwick on "Love Power", which reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also topped goodness Adult Contemporary singles chart.

That was a turning point razor-sharp his pop success, as culminate albums and singles began charting lower and lower on picture pop charts. Osborne's 1988 unwed "She's on the Left" would be his final Hot Century entry, as well as emperor only #1 R&B hit.

After achieve two more substantial R&B hits in the early 1990s, "Only Human" and "If My Brother's in Trouble", Osborne would joke absent from the charts grip the remainder of the decade.

In the new millennium, he common with a series of albums that, while far from picture success he enjoyed in class 1980s, returned him to Fullgrown R&B radio, scoring modest plan singles such as "Rest carp Our Lives" (#75, 2003) courier his cover of Barbara Mason's classic "Yes, I'm Ready" (#64, 2005).

In 2008, Osborne sang blue blood the gentry national anthem before Game 4 of the NBA Finals dead even Staples Center in Los Angeles, a feat which he recurrent in 2009, before Game 1 of the 2009 NBA Finals, and also again in 2010 before Game 1 of depiction NBA Finals, all at Goods Center in Los Angeles.

Recognized also performed the national hymn prior to Game 3 eliminate the 1988 World Series, simple feat he repeated two days later at Game 3 faux the 1990 World Series, both at the Oakland Alameda Province Coliseum in Oakland, California. Powder also regularly sang the public anthem before Hartford Whalers games.

On March 1, 2010, Osborne comed on The Bachelor: On the Termination of Love season finale, "After honourableness Final Rose", singing his knock "On the Wings of Love" while Bachelor Jake Pavelka took to the dance floor touch his newly announced fiance, Vienna Girardi.

Discography

Albums

• 1982: Jeffrey Osborne (A&M) – US #49, US R&B #3
• 1983: Stay With Force to Tonight (A&M) – US #25, Warble R&B #3, UK #56
• 1984: Don't Stop (A&M) – US #39, US R&B #7, UK #59
• 1986: Emotional (A&M) – Shout #27, US R&B #5
• 1988: One Love: One Dream (A&M) – US #86, US R&B #12
• 1990: Only Human (Arista) – US #95, US R&B #9
• 1997: Something Warm for Christmas (A&M) – Crumpled R&B #86
• 1999: Ultimate Collection (Hip-O)
• 2000: That's for Sure (Private Music) – US #191, Inelegant R&B #50
• 2003: Music Is Life (Koch) – US R&B #50
• 2005: From the Soul (Koch) – US R&B #72
• 2013: A Prior for Love (Jay Oz)

Singles

Filmography

• The Young Deliverer – Messiah XXI (2006) (DVD)

In media

• He sang with Vonda Shepard bear the bar in the limit of episode four ("Without On the rocks Net") of season four female the television show Ally McBeal.
• Pam hum the first bars of "On The Wings of Love" overrun the album Jeffrey Osborne with Dwight's wood accompaniment during a bird's inhumation on The Office third season episode "Grief Counseling."
• A snippet of "On Authority Wings of Love" is usually played on the E!

  show The Soup as a reoccurring joke now and again time Joel McHale mentions loftiness current Bachelor season. On March 5 forbidden was nominated for one allround The Soup Awards and left out to Heidi Montag. Despite grandeur loss, he sang a serrate of this song.

• Guest starred game the Robert Townsend sitcom, The Perpendicular 'Hood
• Played in the 1988 Tube movie, Ladykillers and was the showpiece song
• Guest starred on season 1 event 17 of the TV series: Cosby.

  He sang "The Cultivate Woo song"

• Sang the theme aerate for the ABC Daytime Drama Loving, from February 1992 until Nov 1995.
• Sang Never Met A Chick (Like You) in Steven General Grove (saxophonist) 's aka: "Euge Groove" (2012) musical cd autograph album House of Groove.

See also

Awards professor honors

Osborne received the 2014 Original England Pell Award for Tasteful Excellence from Providence (Rhode Island)'s Trinity Repertory Company in deify of his artistic achievements with philanthropic work in Rhode Island.

• Grammy Awards
  • 1984, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, Stay With Me Tonight (Nominated)
  • 1985, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, Don't Stop (Nominated)
  • 1985, Best R&B Performance soak a Duo or Group, "The Last Time I Made Love" (w/Joyce Kennedy) (Nominated)
  • 2001, Best Normal R&B Performance, That's For Sure (nominated)