Teddy Pendergrass
Teddy Pendergrass
Theodore DeReese Pendergrasswas an American singer–songwriter and composer. He first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade. In 1982, Pendergrass was severely injured in an auto accident in Philadelphia, resulting in his being paralyzed from the chest down. He subsequently founded the Teddy Pendergrass Alliance, a foundation that helps those with spinal cord injuries. He commemorated 25 years of living...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth26 March 1950
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.
If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
The majority of my audience has always been women.
I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me.
As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.
When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.