Peabo Bryson - The Voice of Love

Sat. Feb 13, 2021 // 8:00 p.m. // Tickets: $180

You just might hear hits like “I’m So Into You,” “Tonight, I Celebrate Love,” “Feel The Fire,” “Can You Stop the Rain,” and Disney Classics, “Beauty and the Beast” and “It’s a Whole New World.”

If you have ever been in love, fallen out of love, lost a love and found it again, you need to be at the Newberry Opera House February 13, the day before Valentine’s Day, to hear Peabo Bryson, “The Voice of Love.”

This Greenville, South Carolina native is a two-time Grammy® winner who will take you right back to THAT moment in your life. Perhaps, it will be the song “Tonight, I Celebrate my Love,” an emotionally charged duet, originally sung with Roberta Flack. Perhaps, it will be “If Ever You’re in My Arms Again” or “Can You Stop the Rain.” There is even the possibility it will be the two soaring Disney hits “Beauty and the Beast,” originally with Celine Dion, and Oscar winning “A Whole New World” from Aladdin, originally with Regina Belle.

Songwriter Peabo Bryson will also share some of his new songs about love from his latest album “Stand for Love.” Even after all of these years, Peabo is still writing about love. He said, “Every love is like a snowflake, no two are alike…I will never run out of words to write about love.”

Peabo’s understanding of love first began with his mother Marie Bryson. She had a passionate love of music. He said, “Take my mother out of the equation, and I wouldn’t happen.” She took her children to the Greenville auditorium to hear all of the music greats of the time.

He said, “I bet I saw Sam Cooke 15 times. I saw Jackie Wilson, all the greats.” By five or six years old he was singing along with them. Folks in the audience would turn around and say, “Listen to that little boy sing.” Even then people could feel the emotion in his voice.

“I knew then that music was going to be my life,” he said. As he grew older, his interest in being a musician was strengthened as he saw how music transcended race, bigotry, prejudice and religion. He remembered thinking, “What a noble profession.”

He quickly learned that duets are not a competition. However, it was with Roberta Flack that he truly discovered the secret to great duets. It’s about connecting with your partner, the song, and the audience. Music critics have acclaimed his mastery of “intimate music.” “New York Times” critic Jon Pereles dubbed him the “Pavarotti of Soul.”

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Peabo bryson: The Voice of Love… Feel that Connection By: Andy Hawkins