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Donny Hathaway

A smooth, righteous, emotional R&B crooner, Donny Hathaway duetted with Roberta Flack on some of her finest moments, scored a string of big soul hits in his own right and became a key influence on Alicia Keys, Beyoncé and Justin Timberlake. Hathaway started singing in gospel choirs as a three-year-old, studied music and formed a jazz trio while at college and worked as a songwriter and session musician before becoming house producer for Curtis Mayfield's label Curtom Records in the late 1960s. He made his breakthrough in his own right in 1970 with the socially conscious Latin-tin...