As the music world continues to mourn the loss of the late, great Teddy Pendergrass, ESSENCE.com recently spoke with Leon Huff, one-half of Gamble & Huff. Co-founder of Philadelphia International ...

“I want to welcome you all to a wonderful night of love....” Teddy Pendergrass still knows how to set a mood. At the Wiltern Theatre on Thursday, he was a loverman as passionate and convincing as Al ...

Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass, Sr. career began when he was a drummer for The Cadillacs, which soon merged with Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Melvin invited Pendergrass to become the lead ...

For most of his childhood, R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass thought he was destined for the pulpit. It wasn't until the "ripe old age" of 13 that music called to him at a rock and roll show in ...

Teddy Pendergrass’ voice was astounding, muscular enough to lift cars and crack granite. When paired with the elite writers, arrangers and instrumentalists at Philadelphia International Records in the ...

Perhaps it’s fitting that music critics often characterized the fervid baritone of soul music icon Teddy Pendergrass, who died from colon cancer on Wednesday at 59, as having the metaphoric power of ...