{"id":724320,"date":"2026-06-09T03:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724320\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T03:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:01:10","slug":"singer-peabo-bryson-dies-at-75-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724320\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Peabo Bryson Dies at 75 &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Artist sang for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=22495\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sh\u016bkan Storyland<\/a> series, Disney&#8217;s Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin animated films<\/p>\n<p>The official Instagram account for singer Robert Peapo Bryson, who went by the stage name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=186259\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peabo Bryson<\/a>, announced in a statement on June 2 that he had died on 5:00 p.m. EDT that evening. The singer suffered a stroke a few days before and was receiving medical care. He was 75.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nBryson was best known for his songs &#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221; and &#8220;A Whole New World&#8221; from Disney&#8217;s Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin animated films, respectively, which won the Grammy awards for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in their respective years. &#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221; also won the Grammy for Record of the Year in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Bryson was also nominated for Grammy awards throughout his career including for his songs &#8220;Can You Stop the Rain&#8221; and &#8220;Did You Ever Know.&#8221; He was nominated in 1993 for the Daytime Emmy award for Best Original Song for &#8220;I Found Love&#8221; with Earl Rose.<\/p>\n<p>He performed the theme song &#8220;My Gift Is You&#8221; with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=186260\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Moten<\/a> for the 1999 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=22495\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sh\u016bkan Storyland<\/a> anime and variety series. He also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2014-11-10\/new-evangelion-film-team-make-video-for-hikaru-utada-new-cover-album\/.80891\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collaborated<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=24585\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hikaru Utada<\/a> for a track on her Utada Hikaru no Uta cover album in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe singer entered the music industry at the age of 14 as a backup singer for Al Freeman and the Upsetters. He launched his solo career in 1976 and has since produced music for over five decades. Bryson was working on a new album titled Grace for release this year.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: Peabo Bryson&#8217;s Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZI3eGIjroS\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">account<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/culture\/story\/singer-peabo-bryson-dies-75-133533357?cid=social_twitter_abcn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Good Morning America<\/a> (Angeline Jane Bernabe)<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artist sang for Sh\u016bkan Storyland series, Disney&#8217;s Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin animated films The official Instagram account&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-724320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}