Al Jarreau - Alwyn Lopez Penyanyi Jazz Amerika

Alwyn Lopez "Al Jarreau" yang lahir di Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Amerika Serikat, 12 Maret 1940 – meninggal di Los Angeles, California, Amerika Serikat, 12 Februari 2017 pada umur 76 tahun merupakan seorang penyanyi berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Dia mendapat penghargaan tujuh Nominasi Academy Award versi musik. Dia berirama jazz, pop dan R&B. Dilahirkan di Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dia merupakan lulusan Universitas Iowa pada tahun 1962.

Diskografi

The Masquerade Is Over — 1973, Reprise
We Got By — 1975, Warner Bros. Records
Glow — 1976, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 132, R&B # 30, Jazz # 9)
Look To The Rainbow — 1977, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 49, R&B # 19, Jazz # 5)
All Fly Home — 1978, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 78, R&B # 27, Jazz # 2)
All Fly Home (Audiophile pressing) — 1979, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
This Time — 1980, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 27, R&B # 6, Jazz # 1)
Breakin' Away — 1981, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 9, R&B # 1, Jazz # 1, UK # 60)
Jarreau — 1983, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 13, R&B # 4, Jazz # 1, UK # 39)
High Crime — 1984, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 49, R&B # 12, Jazz # 2, UK # 81)
Live In London — 1985, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 125, R&B # 55, Jazz # 10)
L Is For Lover — 1986, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 81, R&B # 30, Jazz # 9, UK # 45)
Heart's Horizon — 1988, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 75, R&B # 10, Jazz # 1)
Heaven and Earth — 1992, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 105, R&B # 30, Jazz # 2)
Tenderness — 1994, Warner Bros. Records (Pop # 114, R&B # 25, Jazz # 2)
Best of Al Jarreau — 1996, Warner Bros. Records
Tomorrow Today — 2000, GRP (Pop # 137, R&B # 43, Jazz # 1)
All I Got — 2002, GRP (Pop # 137, R&B # 43, Jazz # 3)
Accentuate the Positive — 2004, GRP (Jazz # 2)
Givin' It Up (with George Benson) — 2006, Concord (Pop # 58, R&B # 14, Jazz # 1)


Alwin Lopez "Al" Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American singer and musician. Jarreau received a total of seven Grammy Awards and was nominated for over a dozen more. Jarreau is perhaps best known for his 1981 album Breakin' Away, for having sung the theme song of the late–1980s television series Moonlighting, and as a performer in the 1985 charity song "We Are the World".

Jarreau was married twice, His first marriage was to Phyllis Hall. Jarreau and Hall were married from 1964 to 1968, when they divorced. Jarreau's second wife was model Susan Elaine Player who was fourteen years his junior. Player and Jarreau were married from 1977 until his death in 2017. Jarreau and Player had one son together, Ryan. In 2009, children's author Carmen Rubin published the story Ashti Meets Birdman Al, inspired by Jarreau's music. He wrote the foreword for the book and read from it across the world. Al and Carmen worked together to promote literacy and the importance of keeping music alive in children.

It was reported, on July 23, 2010, that Jarreau was critically ill at a hospital in France, while in the area to perform a concert at nearby Barcelonnette, and was being treated for respiratory problems and cardiac arrhythmias. He was taken to the intensive-care unit at Gap late on July 22, 2010. Jarreau was conscious, in stable condition, and in the cardiology unit of La Timone hospital in Marseille, the Marseille Hospital Authority said. He was expected to remain there for about a week for tests.

In June 2012, Jarreau was diagnosed with pneumonia, which caused him to cancel several concerts in France. Jarreau made a full recovery and continued to tour extensively until February 2017. After having been hospitalized for exhaustion in Los Angeles, Jarreau died on February 12, 2017, exactly one month before his 77th birthday and just two days after announcing his retirement.