His first song was a huge success – his only: Percy Sledge, singer of soul hits “When a Man Loves a Woman”, died at the age of 74 years.
By Willi WinklerHow many decent musicians he had learned a real job before his career – Percy Sledge was a nurse that occurred on weekends in bars, until 1966 took him Quin Ivy and Martin Greene under contract. “When a man loves a woman” immediately reached number one, but the poor Percy had already hergeschenkt the copyright. He was forced to make as a soul-brother on if his success even after two years was almost over again.
With his soulful, infinitely flattering voice, he was the first in a series minipliiger narrow ziers for all the lonely hearts between six and ninety-six. Even country songs he transformed into soul songs fullest fervor.
When he was rediscovered in the nineties, his persistent pleas for love sounded like brand new again. When he sang the unfathomable mystery of the hundred thousandth time in which a man loved a woman because he was addicted to her when it fell to his knees and the micro raised ever higher, into which he poured his acoustic love potion against all the laws of physics, would have the most emotional cripple the sweet song like not resist.
The healing Percy Sledge died yesterday aged 73 in Baton Rouge, the capital of Louisiana. He could do no wrong.
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