Clyde McPhatter (November 15, 1932 to 1913 in June 1972) is an American R & B, perhaps the most widely imitated R & B singer in the 1950s and 1960s, making him a key figure in the development of Doo-wop and R & B. McPhatter was the lead content of a gospel group in adolescence, it is created, the Mount Lebanon Singers, Billy Ward and the Dominoes, and the founder ofThe dinghy before going solo, leaving a legacy over 22 years of recording history.
Life and Career
Lensley Clyde McPhatter was born in the town of Tobacco in Durham, North Carolina November 15, 1932 and raised in the religion Baptistfamily, son of Reverend George McPhatter and wife Beulah (although some accounts refer to her as Eva) and singing in his church gospelchoir with three brothers and three brothers, from the age of five. When he was ten years, Clyde has been the soprano soloist with the voice to the chorus. In 1945, Rev. McPhatter family moved to Teaneck, New Jersey, where Chelsior attended Clyde High School. She works part time as a grocery clerk, and later promoted to shift manager at a high school diploma. The family then moved to New York and formed the band McPhatter Mount Lebanon Gospel Singers.
