Teddy Pendergrass

(75 years old)

Born: March 26th, 1950

Place of birth: Kingstree, South Carolina, USA

Death: 2010-01-13

Theodore DeReese Pendergrass was an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter. . His early career is obscured by the fact that he rose to fame in a band that did not carry his name: Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, and to this day, most people assume the guy who sang those tunes was Harold Melvin, but no: it was Pendergrass.