R&B singer David Peaston dies at 54 February 3, 2012 - 19:18 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - R&B and gospel singer David Peaston, best known for the tracks Two Wrongs (Don't Make it Right) and Can I?, has died aged 54, BBC News reported. His niece Neuka Mitchell, said the star passed away on Wednesday from complications of diabetes. The musician, who had a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, came from a family of successful singers. His mother Martha Bass sang with the Clara Ward Singers and sister Fontella Bass had a top-10 song in 1965. Peaston kick started his career after winning several competitions on the Showtime at the Apollo TV show in the 80s. Two Wrongs was his highest charting single, reaching number three in 1989. In 1990, Peaston beat off competition from the likes of Soul II Soul to win a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist. In 2006, after a period of ill health caused by his illness - which led to both his legs being amputated, he returned to music with the album, Song Book: Songs of Soul & Inspiration. Peaston is survived by his wife and two sons.  Top stories The Jubilee Cannes Film Festival honored the legendary French director, the 89-year-old Alain Resnais. Brad Pitt doesn’t want his new film, the crime tale Killing Them Softly, to be viewed as an attack on President Obama According to the wiretapped conversations, Seki obtained the drugs from Sinan Yüksel, who is among 19 suspects. “The Master" features a sure-to-be-controversial look at the origins of a religion that sounds a whole lot like Scientology.   |  Latest news Over 100 trespassers detained in Armenia in January-May  Russian border guards seized 50 firearms, bladed weapons and 300 thous. rubles worth contraband in January-May.Conference participants at Institute of CIS States back Artsakh’s stance The NKR was represented at the round table by Advisers to Foreign Minister Ruben Zargarian and Arsen Melik-Shakhnazarian.Shoushi liberation anniversary celebrated in France Armenian ambassador to France Vigen Chitechyan answered Armenian foreign and domestic policy related questions.Armenian ambassador to China participates in ESCAP meeting Armen Sargsyan participated in meeting of UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. |
