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Barry Eugene Carte Wiki Biography

• Barry Eugene Carter was born in Galveston, Texas, USA, on September 12, 1944. 
• He was best known as a singer, songwriter, and composer for his distinct bass-baritone voice heard in songs like “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything.” 
• His efforts all helped to boost his net worth to where it was until he passed away in July 2003. 
• Sources report a net worth of $20 million as of mid-2016, largely gained through a prosperous career in the music industry; 41 platinum albums and 65 gold albums were achieved. 
• He also had 10 platinum and 20 gold albums, with sales of over 100 million copies worldwide. 
• Both of these are evidence of the riches he has earned in his life. 
• He also listened to his mother’s compilation of classical music when Barry was young and it encouraged him to learn to play the piano. 
• In 1972, he then developed The Love Unlimited Orchestra, a group that was originally supposed to be a Love Unlimited backing band. 
• Finally, Barry used the group for the single “Love’s Theme” and then they recorded their first “Rhapsody in White” album in 1974. 
• He will continue with the Orchestra to make albums such as “Midnight Groove,” “My Sweet Summer Suite,” and “Satin Soul.” 
• In 1979, he left the 20th Century, and he founded his own label, Unlimited Gold. 
• Disco songs were beginning to decline at this point in time, but he still retained a wide following and was able to chat with the song “Change,” released in 1982. 
• “He signed with A&M Records after four years with his label, releasing “The Right Night & Barry White”. 
• This will include a few tracks that hit the Billboard R&B chart along with the album “The Man is Back” His popularity resurfaced in the 1990s and he once again released several albums, including “The Icon Is Love” and “Staying Power.” 
• White also did voice-overs for television and film, aside from music. 
• This includes advertisements, and even a “The Simpsons” guest appearance. 
• He married Betty Smith (1962-65) for his personal life and then Glodean James, the lead singer of Love Unlimited, from 1974 until his death. 
• For much of his life, White suffered health issues associated with being overweight, including high blood pressure and later kidney problems that led to consistent dialysis therapies. 
• He suffered a stroke in 2003 and withdrew from public appearances, and he died at the age of 58 a few months later. 

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Barry Eugene Carte Trademarks

1. His beard
2. Distinctive bass-baritone voice

Barry Eugene Carte Quotes

• Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
• Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
• I’ve always loved War’s Low Rider and Sly Stone’s Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
• We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn’t put it out. Said it wouldn’t sell.
• I don’t know if it’s my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
• No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
• When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
• People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
• The whole system of society tells you what to do.
• We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It’s just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
• I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn’t see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
• I’m very happy with this new record. It’s dealing with different aspects of love-it’s me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
• As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
• I try to tell a story musically in a song.
• One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
• When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
• There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
• I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn’t. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You’re looking at a real daddy.
• Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
• I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Barry Eugene Carte Important Facts

• He was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the California coast of border.
• Friends with Jermaine Jackson, and Wink Martindale.
• The American professional wrestler Super Dragon (Daniel Lyon) calls one of his finishing moves the Barry White Driver. What Barry White ever had to do with dropping people on their heads was never explained.
• Passed away on his 29th wedding anniversary to Glodean White.
• Posthumously inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame on September 20, 2004.
• He was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6914 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 12, 2013.
• Biography in: “The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives”. Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 568-569. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
• 90ties, was impersonated by Piet Paulusma on the “Playbackshow”. Hosted by: Hennie Huisman.
• Father of Barry White Jr., Melva, Nina (born 1965) and Darryl (born 1966) from his first marriage to “Betty White” – Father of Shaherah White or Brigette from his marriage to Glodean White.
• “Love’s Theme” (which he recorded with the Love Unlimited Orchestra) was used by ABC Sports for many years as the theme music for its golf coverage.
• Ranked #78 on VH1’s 100 Sexiest Artists.
• Changed his last name from Carter to “White” when he first met his father.
• Had been almost 6′ 4″ since he was 14 years old.
• None of his children are as big as he was.
• Had a beard since he was 13 years old.
• Parodied by Chevy Chase (as “Very White”) in a first-season episode of Saturday Night Live (1975).
• His daughter with Glodean White, named Brigette, was featured on an episode of A Baby Story (1999) on TLC, having her third child, Jason, with husband Jeff. They also have a daughter named Brittany and a son named Justin.
• Cancelled about one month of tour dates due to “exhaustion”. [August 1999]

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