Clarence Carter has sadly passed away.
The 90-year-old “Slip Away” singer had recently been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer and had been battling pneumonia and sepsis, according toCarter continued to write, record, and release music, as well as tour, into his 80s.
His last album was released in 2020, and he put out a single in 2024 called “Danger Point. ” However, his heyday was in the 1960s and 70s, when he was frequently on the R&B and pop charts. Carter was nominated for two Grammy awards during his career.
In 1970, he was nominated for Best Rhythm & Blues Song for “I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart,” and the next year, he was nominated for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male for “Patches,” a song that took home the statuette for Best Rhythm & Blues Song.
“I had had ‘Slip Away’ and ‘Too Weak to Fight,’ and both of them were gold records, but I think ‘Patches’ really etched me into the music world. Where people are probably going to remember me for a long time to come. Which I always wanted – but I never knew it would happen that way,” Carter toldCarter has a unique perspective on his musical genre.
“In general, most people think of the blues as something sad and ‘I wish I hadn’t done that,’ and this kind of thing. But I don’t,” he said onin 2011.
“Usually, when I go to my show, you’re gonna hear me sing more up-tunes that you dance by than you’re gonna hear me sing songs that you’ll cry about. ” The “Patches” singer was blind from birth, but he never let his disability stop him.
“Give me a challenge and you’ll make me work,” he told thein 1998. “I’m determined to do what folks say I can’t, and it has to do with a lot of factors, especially when you’re blind. I remember hearing a lady say to my mother one day when I was a kid, ‘I guess you’re going to have to take care of him the rest of your life.
’ I never forgot that because I was determined that before the lady left this earth she’d know my mom wouldn’t have to take care of me. ”
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