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12, 1944 in Galveston, Texas, his family soon moved to Los Angeles, where White grew up singing in gospel choirs. By the late 1960s he had organized and produced a girl group called Love Unlimited, whose 1972 hit "Walkin' in the Rain With the One I Love" featured Barry's voice through a telephone. His own debut album, I've Got So Much To Give (1973), included such classic Barry White Songs as "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby" (#3 pop, #1 R&B), "Never, Never, Gonna Give Ya Up" (#7 pop, #2 R&B), and "I've Got So Much to Give" (#32 pop, #5 R&B). In 1973-74 alone, White wrote, produced, or performed on records whose total sales exceeded over $16 million. Among his gold records are Rhapsody in White by the Love Unlimited Orchestra (#8 pop), Can't Get Enough (#1 pop), "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Baby" (#1 pop and R&B), "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" (#2 pop, #1 R&B, 1974).
White's star faded somewhat in the 80s and early 90s, though he continued to record. In 1996 White sang on R&B hits by Quincy Jones and Tina Turner. The aptly titled Staying Power (#43 pop, #13 R&B) won two R&B Grammys and proved that he hadn't lost his potency in 1999. That same year he published an autobiography, Love Unlimited. By mid-2000 he was appearing regularly on the hit television show Ally McBeal. After years of battling high blood pressure that eventually resulted in renal failure, Barry White suffered a stroke in May of 2003. He finally passed away two months later on July 4th at the age of 58. He was posthumously inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in September, 2004. "Say the name Barry White and you'd be hard pressed to follow it with the name of any other recording artist with such a huge, cross-sectional following," says one critic. "He was at home appearing on Soul Train, guesting with a full band on The Today Show, and appearing in cartoon form in various episodes of The Simpsons." To us, however, he will always be remembered as the one and only Maestro.