1. Eldra "El" Patrick DeBarge was born on June 4,1961 and is an American singer, songwriter and musician.
15 Facts About El DeBarge
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El DeBarge was the focal point and primary lead singer of the family group DeBarge.
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El DeBarge has collaborated with artists such as Dionne Warwick, Al Green, Lalah Hathaway, Tone Loc, Babyface, Faith Evans, Quincy Jones, Fourplay, and DJ Quik.
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El DeBarge sang in his local church choir and played piano as a child.
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For several years, El DeBarge spent time in private study with music educator Ricky Callier.
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El DeBarge became a father for the first time at 16 and eventually fathered eleven more children.
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El DeBarge later helped to arrange music for several Switch songs including "Love Over and Over Again" and "My Friend in the Sky", which he, Bunny, and Bobby wrote.
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The album was noted for most of its songs produced and written by all four family members including Bobby El DeBarge, who helped end the album track "Queen of My Heart" after El DeBarge had led the song for most of its tenure.
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In 1983, El DeBarge released In a Special Way, which spawned the hits "Time Will Reveal" and "Love Me in a Special Way", and in 1984, the band became a sensation while touring for Luther Vandross on the singer's Busy Body tour.
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The El DeBarge family had one more album, Bad Boys, although Eldra and Bunny were not on the album.
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Three years passed until El DeBarge released his second album, Gemini in 1989.
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In 1992, El DeBarge released his third album, the Maurice White-produced In the Storm, which featured the Chante Moore duet "You Know What I Like", which was Moore's first professional recording.
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On February 4,2022, El DeBarge performed a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR Music at his home, playing keyboards and singing.
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El DeBarge served 13 months of his two-year prison sentence in 2008 for drug-related convictions.
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In February 2011, while promoting his 2010 album Second Chance, El DeBarge's label announced that the singer was canceling all public dates and appearances as he went back to rehab following a relapse.