Barry White

Barry White is one of the few artists whose voice alone is an entire genre. That subterranean bass, the lush Love Unlimited Orchestra, the late-night romanticism of Love's Theme, all of it feels untouchable to me decades later. It is easy to flatten him into the lover-man cliche, but he was a genuine craftsman who wrote, arranged and conducted. Two Grammys and a Walk of Fame star barely capture it. When he died in 2003 we lost a sound nobody has truly replaced. To me he remains the warmest voice to keep you company well past midnight.

Name (English)

Barry White

Name (Japanese)

バリー・ホワイト

Reading

ばりー・ほわいと

Born

September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Monkey

Origin

Galveston, Texas, United States

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / bandleader / composer / conductor

High school

Jefferson High School (Los Angeles)

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Official sitehttps://www.barrywhite.us/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20White
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213647

Tags

• Texas
• singer
• singer-songwriter
• bandleader

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.