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Eddie Kendricks December.17.1939 - October.5.1992

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Eddie Kendricks
was an American singer and songwriter. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks co-founded the Motown singing group The Temptations, and was one of their lead singers from 1960 until 1971. His was the lead voice on such famous songs as "The Way You Do The Things You Do", "Get Ready", and "Just My Imagination". As a solo artist, Kendricks recorded several hits of his own during the 1970s, including the number-one single "Keep On Truckin'"

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Eddie Kendricks Biography

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Known for both his years with the Temptations and his major solo hits of the 1970s, Eddie Kendricks was among the many soul legends who did his part to put Motown Records on the map. The expressive vocalist (who often sang in a falsetto) grew up in Birmingham, AL, but it was Motown's original home of Detroit that made him a star. Kendricks was still living in Alabama in the late '50s, when he formed the Primes with Kell Osborne and Temptation-to-be Paul Williams. After moving from Alabama to Detroit, the Primes caught the attention of a Motor City group known as the Distants (whose members included Tempations-to-be Otis Williams, Elbridge Bryant, and Melvin Franklin).

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Eddie James Kendrick, "In Loving Memory"

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Eddie Kendrick, lead vocalist and founding member of the Temptations, suffered terribly before succumbing to lung cancer at the age of 52. In an interview earlier that year, Kendrick expressed how he'd been suprised at learning the news of his fate. He stated, "I went to have a check up and the doctor told me that I had a carcinoma, which is lung cancer. I was shocked at first because I had no symptoms that I knew of". In 1991, doctors removed his right lung in a effort to save his life. The surgery seemed to improve his health, and he was able to tour in Europe and Japan in the summer of 1992. Kendricks had been receiving liquid oxygen treatments, but he soon developed complications and was hospitalized at the Baptist Medical Center-Princeton on September 25th and would remain there until his death 10 days later.

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Eddie Kendricks "The Early Years"

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Eddie Kendricks, we all have our favorite Temptation, and Eddie Kendricks certainly was mine. The sweetest and silkiest of tenors, quiet and cool, with a voice that made the woman drool. The tall, lean and handsome tenor from Union Springs, Alabama was little more than eighteen when he arrived in Detroit, the town where he would eventually find fame as a member of the Motown supergroup, The Temptations. Eddie arrived in Detroit along with childhood friends Paul Williams and Kell Osborne. Together they had formed a classic vocal group they called The Primes.

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