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Bobby Caldwell was born on August 15, 1951 and is 74 years old now.
Birthday: August 15, 1951
How Old - Age: 74
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Bobby Caldwell - Biography
Bobby Caldwell (born August 15, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, despite a prolific musical output over his 30-year career, is still best known for his 1978 hit single "What You Won't Do for Love".
He signed with TK Records in Miami. In 1978, after songs for his first album were recorded, executives told Caldwell they enjoyed the album but thought it was lacking a hit. Caldwell returned to the studio for two days and wrote "What You Won't Do for Love". TK was mainly an R&B label popular among African American listeners. Executives at the label wanted to conceal the fact that Caldwell was white, so they kept his face off the album cover. When he toured with Natalie Cole to support the album, most of the audience was black, and many were surprised that he turned out to be white.
"What You Won't Do for Love" reached the top ten on the Billboard magazine Pop (No. 9) R&B (No. 6), and Adult Contemporary (No. 10) charts. The song has been covered, remade, and sampled many times. Caldwell remade it in 1998. It was covered by Go West, Phyllis Hyman, and Boyz II Men, and has been sampled by Tupac Shakur. It was also covered by Elliott Yamin during the fifth season of American Idol in 2006.
Caldwell is popular in Japan, where he was nicknamed "Mister AOR." In Japan, the term "AOR" (AOR short for "Adult Oriented Rock" in Japan circa 1980, means rock music not for youth but for more socially matured people) is used to describe the style commonly called Adult Contemporary in the United States. In 1992, he received the Japan's equivalent of a Grammy Award for Best International Artist.
