Goodbye to Peabo Bryson, the voice of the great Disney classics

Peabo Bryson has died at the age of 75one of the most beloved voices of American R&B and interpreter of some of the most famous Disney songs of the nineties. According to US media reports, the singer had suffered a stroke a few days before his death. Bryson entered the history of music thanks to two duets that have become iconic: “Beauty and the Beast”, performed together with Celine Dion for the film “Beauty and the Beast”, and “A Whole New World”, sung with “Regina Belle” for Aladdin. Both songs earned him a Grammy Award and helped make him one of the most recognizable voices in international pop and soul music. Throughout his career, which began in the seventies, Peabo Bryson has collaborated with artists such as Roberta Flack and Natalie Coleracking up hits on the American R&B and pop charts. “His legacy and his music will live on for generations to come,” his family said in a statement released following the news of his death. With Peabo gone Bryson leaves one of the voices that accompanied the childhood and imagination of millions of people around the world.