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Barrett Strong Jr. was born Feb. 5, 1941, in West Point, Miss., the only son of six children. He was 4 when the family mov to Detroit, and his father, a minister, soon bought him a piano. He began singing in middle school, which he attend with Aretha Franklin and Dozier, according to the Detroit Free Press.
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He perform at local music joints around Detroit.
Mr. Strong drift in and out of music, working at Chrysler telegram database on the production line and at an automat restaurant, among other blue-collar jobs that support his family. When Gordy mov Motown to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, Mr. Strong didn’t immiately want to move his family. He stay in Detroit and sign with Epic Records, releasing two albums — “Stronghold” (1975) and “Live & Love” (1976), and only later mov to California.
His wife of 35 years the former Sandy
White, di in 2002. Survivors include seven children which sells content to newspapers and 10 grandchildren.
Mr. Strong never achiev the fame that Gordy did, in part because he was naive about the business of music.
“I never lik the business side,” he told the Free taiwan lead Press. “I lov the art. But I didn’t know anything back then.”
Still, he said he was satisfi with his career.
“I feel good about it,” Mr. Strong told the paper. “I did something. I did my part, what I was put on this earth to do. I made people smile. I made people have babies. I made people do a lot of things. So I contribut something to my being here.”