Donovan Whycliffe Bromwell,What Happened to Whycliffe?
''Left Lion'', January 12, 2005. known mononymously as Whycliffe, is an English R&B singer from

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. Whycliffe was born into a

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family and sang in the choir as a child.Whycliffe
at

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After sending a

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to local label Submission Records, he attracted label attention, eventually signing with

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. He released two albums for MCA and had three singles in the

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- "Lovespeakup" (1990) at No. 97, "Heaven" (1993) at No. 56, and "One More Time" (1994) at No. 72.Chart positions for Whycliffe
UK Official Charts. He worked with the producers Tim Simenon,

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, and Chris Porter. He dated

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in 1994. After being dropped from MCA, Whycliffe left the public eye, and in 2005, a Nottingham publication reported that he "sings for a quid in the city centre and lives in a sheltered housing complex."

Discography

*''Rough Side'' (

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, 1992) *''Journeys of the Mind'' (MCA, 1994)

References

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