A smooth, righteous, emotional R&B crooner, Donny Hathaway duetted with Roberta
Flack on some of her finest moments, scored a string of big soul hits in his own
right and became a key influence on Alicia Keys, Beyoncé and Justin Timberlake.
Hathaway started singing in gospel choirs as a three-year-old, studied music and
formed a jazz trio while at college and worked as a songwriter and session
musician before becoming house producer for Curtis Mayfield's label Curtom
Records in the late 1960s. He made his breakthrough in his own right in 1970
with the socially conscious Latin-tin...