Biography
This US vocal duo, comprising Charles Pettigrew (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 6 April 2001, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) and Eddie Chacon (b. Oakland, California, USA), first met on a New York subway train. Chacon, allegedly, was clutching a copy of Marvin Gaye’s Trouble Man, and so the two of them struck up a conversation and later started performing together. Chacon had grown up in Oakland, California, where he was in a soul band, and later moved to Miami, Florida, where his recording career continued on projects with the Dust Brothers and Daddy-O. Daddy-O produced Chacon’s two solo albums, both of which left him feeling frustrated and determined to return to the soul music he had known in his youth. Pettigrew, meanwhile, was raised in Philadelphia, and went on to study jazz vocals at the Berklee College Of Music in Boston, while also singing with the pop band Down Avenue. Charles and Eddie enjoyed a worldwide hit in 1992 with ‘Would I...
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