Darryl Pandy (born December 24, 1962, died on June 10, 2011 at age 48Gregory Paratore: "Darryl Pandy RIP"

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, June 12, 2011 (retrieved November 24, 2019).) was an American

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and

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singer from

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Music career

Coming from a

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and opera background,Barry Walters: Burning Down the House
''Spin'', November 1986. Pandy was a lead vocalist in the

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of Chicago's Church of Universal Awareness.RIP Darryl Pandy
WIRE, June 14, 2011 (retrieved August 23, 2019). He is mostly known for performing one of the first international hits in house music,

Farley "Jackmaster" Funk Farley "Jackmaster" Funk (born Farley Keith Williams; January 25, 1962) is an American musician, DJ and record producer of Chicago house and acid house music. He is notable for writing and producing a number of highly influential tracks in th ...

's 1986 song "

Love Can't Turn Around "Love Can't Turn Around" is a 1986 Chicago house song by Farley Keith Williams a.k.a. Farley "Jackmaster" Funk and Jesse Saunders featuring vocalist Darryl Pandy. It holds an important place in the history of house music as the first record in th ...

", which he also sang live in a "flamboyant performance" on the British TV show ''

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'' that made him famous. The record peaked No. 10 in the

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and played an important role in the history of house music as it was the first house record being a major success overseas,Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, the Man Who Brought House to the UK. Interview by Josh Baines
. VICE, September 18, 2015 (retrieved June 17, 2017). especially regarding the fact that the U.K. developed their own and very influential hot spot of house and

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in the so-called "

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" between 1988 and 1989. Pandy recorded numerous other house singles, many of them under his own name. In 1998, he released the album ''Darryl Pandy'' on Mirakkle Records. Having been ill for 7 months before his death at age 48, there were several benefit shows for Pandy.

Reception

In an article on the early

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music scene from 1986, Barry Walters from SPIN magazine wrote about Pandy's performance of "Love Can't Turn Around":

"Darryl Pandy is an enormous man, a Refrigerator Perry gone
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diva. He comes from a Broadway and opera background and has a six and a half octave
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. Ask him to prove it and he’ll gladly sing selections from ''
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'', taking on both Porgy ''and'' Bess. On record, notably ‘Love Can't Turn Around’, Pandy resembles a possessed cross between his idols
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and
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, with a dark trace of
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. Like Doctor's Cat, Pandy sings with emotions endearingly inappropriate to the material. He begins ‘Love Can't Turn Around’ with all the hypermasculinity of an ill-fated
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, to come back in the third verse as Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. His dynamics are so ridiculously wrong by contemporary R&B standards that they become absolutely right for house. Pandy's histrionics are emblematic of the house scene in general. House is about the loss of decorum and control. From sexual extravagance to dance-floor excess, everything about house is geared towards losing it."

External links

Full Discography of Darryl Pandy
on

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Video of "Love Can't Turn Around" performed by Darryl Pandy
on

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(1986)
Terry Matthew: Remembering Darryl – Chicago House Legend Darryl Pandy Has Passed Away
– Obituary in

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(June 10, 2011)
The Darryl Pandy Moment
– Obituary (June 11, 2011)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pandy, Daryll 1962 births 2011 deaths Musicians from Chicago African-American musicians American house musicians