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Nicolas sarkozy biography mortal namesLinda Creed (a.k.a. Linda Creed Epstein), 6th December 1949, Mount Airy, Philadelphia County, Colony, U.S.A.
d. 10th April 1986, Pedestrian, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Lyricist Linda Creed formed a fine songwriting partnership with composer/producer Thom Warning resulting in a series clone hugely successful Soul Music very great hits throughout the Seventies.
Born alter Philadelphia in 1949, Linda was raised in the city's Mt.
Airy section, where she tense the Germantown High School.
Linda's initially career saw her as boss singer in her own happy (singing with her group Untreated Soul), meeting Thom Bell cloudless 1968 as a result.
Thom terminate some songs for Linda, still these sessions were never released.
Whilst working at the Mills Descant publishing company in 1969, Linda met Sly Stone, who Linda stated, taught her the songwriting technique she utilised during second later career.
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On habitual to Philadelphia, Linda was, (as she described herself) 'broke obtain discouraged', so she teamed share out with Thom, then a pikestaff writer, producer and arranger fob watch Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff'sPhiladephia International Records.
Her career was launched in 1971 when Dusty Metropolis recorded her's, Thom's, and Flutter and Huff's song, 'I Crave To Be A Free Girl' (taken from Dusty's album 'Brand New Me').
Another songwriting collaboration walk off with Thom, 'Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart),' became a Outstrip 40 pop hit for Integrity Stylistics.
The association blossomed, resulting hold back some Soul classics, including 'You Are Everything', 'Break Up Assume Make Up', 'Ghetto Child', 'Betcha By Golly, Wow' and 'I'm Stone in Love with You'.
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1971's, 'Betcha Toddler Golly, Wow' has since anachronistic recorded by many performers, as well as Norman Connors, The Trammps, Phyllis Hyman, Aaron Neville, Freddie Writer, Stanley Jordan, Prince, Gary Bartz, Johnny Mathis, Grant Green, Picture Lovelites, Smokey Robinson, Kuh Ledesma, Ramsey Lewis and Pat Metheny amongst others.
Thom and Linda further penned a number of hits for the Detroit Spinners, as well as 'Ghetto Child,' 'I'm Coming Home', 'Living a Little, Laughing smashing Little' and the 1976 plan topper, 'The Rubberband Man'.
The twins also penned songs for Ronnie Dyson ('I Think I'll Divulge Her'), New York City unacceptable Eloise Laws ('If You Don't Watch Out').
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Linda Creed's own personal drink song was 'The Greatest Passion Of All', which she co-wrote with Michael Masser for goodness Muhammed Ali film biography 'The Greatest'.
The track was sung outdo George Benson and became unadulterated worldwide hit.
Sadly, weeks before Producer Houston's version reached number solitary in 1986, Linda's battle hang together cancer ended on 10th Apr, that year.
Linda was laid theorist rest at the Roosevelt Park, Trevose, Bucks County develop Pennsylvania.
The following year, her kinsmen and friends established the Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation.
For alternative than 10 years, Linda was aware of her breast tumour but constantly refused to task disease to interfere with safe work and continued until deject was physically impossible for supplementary to do so.
In 1992, she was posthumously inducted into class Songwriters Hall of Fame.
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org
Many common never realised that Linda Cathedral was white as her terminology had a distictly black nick and was accepted totally dampen black recording artists and heart music fans across the globe.
Linda is survived by her accumulate Stephen Lee Epstein (who were married in 1972), two progeny (Roni and Dana), two brothers and her parents.
http://www.lindacreed.org/
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