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Caldwell, Bobby

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Personal name headingCaldwell, Bobby
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Variant(s)Caldwell, Robert Hunter, 1951-2023
See alsoCorporate body: Cool Uncle (Musical group)
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedMiami (Fla.) Great Meadows (N.J.)
Birth date1951-08-15
Death date2023-03-14
Place of birthManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Place of deathGreat Meadows (N.J.)
Field of activityPopular music
Profession or occupationJazz singers Guitarists Composers Soul musicians
Special noteDo not confuse with rock drummer: Caldwell, Bobby, 1951-
Found inHis Stuck on you [SR] p1991: label (Bobby Caldwell)
All music guide WWW site, Mar. 16, 2006 (Bobby Caldwell; b. Aug. 15, 1951, New York, NY; contemporary jazz singer/guitarist)
Oxford music online, November 12, 2015: Enc. of popular music, 4th ed. (Caldwell, Bobby; born August 15, 1951, Manhattan, New York City; known for his jazz ballad What you won't do for love; he has written songs for the Commodores, Chicago, Boz Scaggs, and Peter Cetera and Amy Grant, and also for film and television, notably for the New Mickey Mouse Club show, and various commercials)
Wikipedia, November 12, 2015 (Bobby Caldwell; born August 15, 1951, Manhattan, New York; American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist; genres: blue-eyed soul, smooth jazz; lives in New Jersey)
Bobby Caldwell WWW site, November 12, 2015 (Bobby Caldwell; born Manhattan, raised in Miami; singer/songwriter)
Aku, Timmhotep. Review: Cool Uncle, 'Cool Uncle', November 13, 2015, NPR website, viewed December 01, 2015: (Cool Uncle is the unlikely pairing of veteran smooth pop and soul singer-songwriter Bobby Caldwell and the contemporary hit-making producer Jack Splash; the genre borders between smooth jazz, R&B and pop)
   <http://www.npr.org/2015/11/04/454671949/first-listen-cool-uncle-cool-uncle>
Washington post WWW site, viewed March 16, 2023 (in obituary dated March 15, 2023: Bobby Caldwell, an R&B singer and songwriter who had a major hit in 1978 with the smooth soul jam "What You Won't Do for Love," died March 14 at his home in Great Meadows, N.J. He was 71. Robert Hunter Caldwell was born in Manhattan on Aug. 15, 1951, and grew up in Miami)