He skipped class to walk to Capitol Records headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, and stood across the street from the office staring for hours. White had another moment of inspiration on his 18th birthday, which also was the first day back for his graduating year of high school. While in jail, he listened to Elvis Presley singing " It's Now or Never" on the radio, an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life. White was jailed for four months at the age of 16 for stealing $30,000 worth of Cadillac tires (equivalent to about $300,000 in 2022). I spoke to my mother and I scared both of us." My mother cried because she knew her baby boy had become a man." In an 2000 interview with Conan O'Brien he further recalled: "I woke up one morning when I was 14. Then as a teenager, that completely changed. He recalled: ", I had a normal squeaky kid voice. White's voice deepened suddenly when he was 14. Riis High School, an all boys academy in southeast Los Angeles. While White and Belvin lived in the same neighborhood, Belvin was 12 years older than White. He believed the story was an exaggeration by journalists. However, in a 1995 interview with the Boston Herald, White denied writing or arranging the song.
White has often been credited with playing piano, at age 11, on Jesse Belvin's 1956 hit single, " Goodnight My Love". White grew up listening to his mother's classical music collection and first took to the piano, emulating what he heard on the records.
He was the older of two children his brother Darryl was 13 months younger. He grew up in the Watts neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles, California. His parents never married, so his mother gave him her last name, but he later took on the surname of his father. White, and his mother was Sadie Marie Carter. White was born Barry Eugene Carter on September 12, 1944, in Galveston, Texas, United States. His influences included James Cleveland, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, the Four Tops and Marvin Gaye. White had 20 gold and 10 platinum singles, with worldwide record sales in excess of 100 million records, and is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. White recorded 20 studio albums during the course of his career, but multiple versions and compilations were released worldwide that were certified gold, 41 of which also attained platinum status. A two-time Grammy Award winner known for his bass voice and romantic image, his greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with The Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring soul, funk, and disco songs such as his two biggest hits: " Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" and " You're the First, the Last, My Everything". Barry Eugene Carter (Septem– July 4, 2003), better known by his stage name Barry White, was an American singer and songwriter.
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