Percy Sledge Later career What happened later in his career? Sledge's career enjoyed a renaissance in the 1980s when "When a Man Loves a Woman" re-entered the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 2 What album was the song from? Michael Bolton brought "When a Man Loves a Woman" back into the limelight again on his hit album Time, Love, & Tenderness. What other songs did Sledge work on? In 1994, Saul Davis and Barry Goldberg produced Sledge's album, Blue Night, for Philippe Le Bras' Sky Ranch label and Virgin Records. Were there any hits on the album? Blue Night received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album, Vocal or Instrumental, Did he win any other awards? 1996 it won the W.C. Handy Award for best soul or blues album.
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Sledge's career enjoyed a renaissance in the 1980s when "When a Man Loves a Woman" re-entered the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 2 behind the reissued Ben E. King classic "Stand by Me", after being used in a Levi's commercial. In the early 1990s, Michael Bolton brought "When a Man Loves a Woman" back into the limelight again on his hit album Time, Love, & Tenderness. On the week of November 17 to November 23, 1991, Bolton's version also hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, exactly 25 1/2  years to the week after Percy's did in 1966.  In 1994, Saul Davis and Barry Goldberg produced Sledge's album, Blue Night, for Philippe Le Bras' Sky Ranch label and Virgin Records. It featured Bobby Womack, Steve Cropper, and Mick Taylor among others. Blue Night received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album, Vocal or Instrumental, and in 1996 it won the W.C. Handy Award for best soul or blues album.  In 2004, Davis and Goldberg also produced the Shining Through the Rain album, which preceded his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Songs on the CD were written by Mikael Rickfors, Steve Earle, the Bee Gees, Carla Olson, Denny Freeman, Allan Clarke and Jackie Lomax. The same year Percy recorded a live album with his band Sunset Drive entitled Percy Sledge and Sunset Drive - Live in Virginia on WRM Records produced by Warren Rodgers.  In May 2007, Percy was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame in his home city of Baton Rouge, LA.  In December 2010, Rhino Handmade issued a four-CD retrospective, The Atlantic Recordings, which covers all of the issued Atlantic masters, as well as many of the tracks unissued in the United States (although some were simply the mono versions of songs originally issued in stereo; Disc 1 comprises Sledge's first two LPs which were not recorded on stereo equipment). In 2011 Sledge toured with Sir Cliff Richard during his Soulicious tour, performing "I'm Your Puppet". CANNOTANSWER
In 2004, Davis and Goldberg also produced the Shining Through the Rain album, which preceded his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Percy Tyrone Sledge (November 25, 1940 – April 14, 2015) was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best known for the song "When a Man Loves a Woman", a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, Gold-certified disc from the RIAA.

Having previously worked as a hospital orderly in the early 1960s, Sledge achieved his strongest success in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a series of emotional soul songs. In later years, Sledge received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Career Achievement Award. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.

Biography

Early career
Sledge was born on November 25, 1940, in Leighton, Alabama. He worked in a series of agricultural jobs in the fields in Leighton, before taking a job as an orderly at Colbert County Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama. Through the mid-1960s, he toured the Southeast with the Esquires Combo on weekends, while working at the hospital during the week. A former patient and mutual friend of Sledge and record producer Quin Ivy introduced the two. An audition followed, and Sledge was signed to a recording contract.

Sledge's soulful voice was perfect for the series of soul ballads produced by Ivy and Marlin Greene, which rock critic Dave Marsh called "emotional classics for romantics of all ages". "When a Man Loves a Woman" was Sledge's first song recorded under the contract, and was released in March 1966. According to Sledge, the inspiration for the song came when his girlfriend left him for a modelling career after he was laid off from a construction job in late 1965, and, because bassist Calvin Lewis and organist Andrew Wright helped him with the song, he gave all the songwriting credits to them. It reached No. 1 in the US and went on to become an international hit.  "When a Man Loves a Woman" was a hit twice in the UK, reaching No. 4 in 1966 and, on reissue, peaked at No. 2 in 1987.  The song was also the first gold record released by Atlantic Records. The soul anthem became the cornerstone of Sledge's career, and was followed by "Warm and Tender Love" (covered by British singer Elkie Brooks in 1981), "It Tears Me Up", "Take Time to Know Her" (his second biggest US hit, reaching No. 11; the song's lyric was written by Steve Davis), "Love Me Tender", and "Cover Me".

Sledge charted with "I'll Be Your Everything" and "Sunshine" during the 1970s, and became an international concert favorite throughout the world, especially in the Netherlands, Germany, and on the African continent; he averaged 100 concerts a year in South Africa.

Later career
Sledge's career enjoyed a renaissance in the 1980s when "When a Man Loves a Woman" re-entered the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 2 behind the reissued Ben E. King classic "Stand by Me", after being used in a Levi's commercial. In the early 1990s, Michael Bolton brought "When a Man Loves a Woman" back into the limelight again on his hit album Time, Love, & Tenderness. On the week of November 17 to November 23, 1991, Bolton's version also hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, exactly 25½ years to the week after Percy's did in 1966.

In 1994, Saul Davis and Barry Goldberg produced Sledge's album, Blue Night, for Philippe Le Bras' Sky Ranch label and Virgin Records. It featured Bobby Womack, Steve Cropper, and Mick Taylor among others. Blue Night received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album, Vocal or Instrumental, and in 1996 it won the W.C. Handy Award for best soul or blues album.

In 2004, Davis and Goldberg also produced the Shining Through the Rain album, which preceded his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Songs on the CD were written by Mikael Rickfors, Steve Earle, the Bee Gees, Carla Olson, Denny Freeman, Allan Clarke and Jackie Lomax. The same year Percy recorded a live album with his band Sunset Drive entitled Percy Sledge and Sunset Drive – Live in Virginia on WRM Records produced by Warren Rodgers.

In May 2007, Percy was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame in his home city of Baton Rouge, LA.

In December 2010, Rhino Handmade issued a four-CD retrospective, The Atlantic Recordings, which covers all of the issued Atlantic masters, as well as many of the tracks unissued in the United States (although some were simply the mono versions of songs originally issued in stereo; Disc 1 comprises Sledge's first two LPs which were not recorded on stereo equipment). In 2011 Sledge toured with Sir Cliff Richard during his Soulicious tour, performing "I'm Your Puppet".

Personal life
Sledge married twice and was survived by his second wife, Rosa Sledge, whom he married in 1980. He had 12 children, three of whom became singers.

Death
Sledge died of liver cancer at his home in Baton Rouge on April 14, 2015, at the age of 74. His interment was in Baton Rouge's Heavenly Gates Cemetery.

Accolades
Sledge was:
An inaugural Rhythm and Blues Foundation Pioneer Award honoree in 1989.
Inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1993.
The recipient of the Blues Music Award in 1996 for best Soul/Blues album of the year with his record Blue Night.
Inducted into the Carolina Beach Music Hall Of Fame in November 2004.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame for his contributions by the State of Louisiana in May 2007.
Inducted into the Delta Music Museum in Ferriday, Louisiana.

Selected discography

Albums

Singles

1994
"I Wish It Would Rain" (Sky Ranch / Virgin, Sweden)
duet with Mikael Rickfors
produced by Saul Davis & Barry Goldberg

1994 "You Got Away with Love" (Pat Robinson & Rocky Burnette) / "Why Did You Stop?" (Carla Olson)
(Sky Ranch / Virgin, France)
produced by Saul Davis & Barry Goldberg

Compilation albums

In popular culture
Sledge is sometimes cited as the inspiration behind the Australian language term "to sledge", meaning "to put someone off their game", first used in Test cricket, though the phrase more probably derives from "subtle as a sledgehammer".

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2015 deaths
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21st-century American singers
20th-century African-American male singers
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Capricorn Records artists
Deaths from liver cancer
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Singers from Alabama
American rhythm and blues singers
American soul singers
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Ariel Olivetti (born November 15, 1967) is an Argentine  comic book penciller best known for his work on American comic book titles such as Daredevil, X-Man, Space Ghost and Punisher War Journal.

Career
Olivetti studied Graphic Design in college and first had his work published in the Argentine magazine Fierro.

His first work in USA was 1995's The Last Avengers Story, which was written by Peter David and published by Marvel Comics. He went on to have a brief stint as regular penciller on Marvel's Daredevil between 1997 and 1998, where he worked with writer Joe Kelly. His next major work was in 1998 when he worked with writer Steven Grant on the Warren Ellis devised "Counter X" revamp of Marvel's X-Man title. In 2005 he again collaborated with Joe Kelly on DC Comics Space Ghost limited series which revealed the character's origins for the first time.

Other titles he has worked on include Mystique and Sabretooth (1996), Alpha Flight (1997) and What If? (1997) at Marvel and JLA: Paradise Lost (1998), Haven: The Broken City (2002), Green Lantern (2003) and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (2006) at DC. In 1999, he collaborated with writer Mark Waid on The Kingdom (illustrating issue #1, with Mike Zeck illustrating issue #2), a sequel to Kingdom Come.

In 2006 he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics and launched the second volume of Punisher War Journal with writer Matt Fraction. Olivetti did art on the first ten numbers. Other work for Marvel includes the Cable (vol. 2) ongoing series that debuted in March 2008, and more recently, Incredible Hulk, and Namor (vol. 3).

Throughout his career Olivetti has worked in different mediums, including black and white, digital color, acrylics and oils. Olivetti himself declared having been influenced by artists like Richard Corben, Simon Bisley and his fellow countryman Mauro Cascioli 

In 2012 he collaborated with the comic book Hero Seeds, drawing two covers of the comics and several drawings in the same comics.

Bibliography

DC

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #207-211 (along with Mauro Cascioli, 2006)
DCU: Brave New World #1 (among other artists) (2006)
Elseworlds 80-Page Giant #1 (among other artists) (1999)
Flash, vol. 2, 80-Page Giant #1 (among other artists) (1998)
Future Quest Presents (Space Ghost) #1-3 (2017)
G.I. Combat, vol. 2, #1 (2012)
Haven The Broken City, miniseries, #1-9 (2002)
JLA (Martian Manhunter) Annual #1 (1997)
JLA:
Paradise Lost, miniseries, #1-3 (1998)
Primeval (1999)
JLA/Haven:Arrival (2002)Anathema (2002)JLA Showcase 80-Page Giant #1 (among other artists) (2000)The Kingdom, 2-part miniseries, #1 (1999)Lobo #63-64 (1999)Martian Manhunter Annual #1 (1998)Space Ghost, miniseries, #1-6 (2005)Superman, vol. 2, #179 (2002)Superman Returns Prequel, 4-part miniseries, #1 (2006)Superman Secret Files and Origins 2005 (2006)

DC / Dark HorseSuperman and Batman vs. Aliens and Predators, miniseries, #1-2 (2007)

MarvelAlpha Flight, vol. 2, #11 (1997)Cable, vol. 2, #1-15 (2008–09)Daredevil (full art): #369, 371-372, 374; (among other artists): #375 (1997–98)
 Death of the Inhumans, miniseries, #1 (2018)Hercules: Fall of an Avenger, miniseries, #1-2 (2010)Incredible Hulk #601-605 (2009–10)Iron Man 2.0 #4-5, 8 (2011)Last Avengers Story, miniseries, #1-2 (1995)Mystique and Sabretooth, miniseries, #1-4 (1996–97)Namor, vol. 3, #1-3, 5 (2010-11)Punisher War Journal, vol. 2, #1-3, 5-10 (2007)Thor: Heaven & Earth, miniseries, #1 (2011)Ultimate Civil War: Spider-Man, one-shot (among other artists) (2007)What If? #88 (1996)X-Men: Declassified #1 (among other artists) (2000)X-Men Unlimited #12 (along with Steve Epting) (1996)X-Man #38 (with ChrisCross); #63, 66-73 (2000–01)X-Force #107 (2000)X-Factor, vol. 2, #7 (2006)Venom - Space Knight #1-4 (2015-16)

Other publishersBrutal Nature: Concrete Fury, miniseries, #1-4 (IDW, 2017)Conan and the People of the Black Circle, miniseries, #1-4 (Dark Horse, 2013-14) El Cazador de Aventuras #1-65 (gone along with Jorge Lucas, Mauro Cascioli and Claudio Ramírez) (Ediciones de la Urraca - Argentina, 1992–99)Fierro #?-? (Ediciones de la Urraca) ICH: Naturaleza Salvaje'' (Yermo Ediciones, 2016)

Notes

References

External links

Olivetti's Yahoo fan club 

People from Buenos Aires
1967 births
Living people
Argentine comics artists BJ Burton is an American record producer, songwriter, engineer, and mixer. He is known for his work with Bon Iver, Francis and the Lights, Low, Charli XCX, and The Japanese House, and has also worked with the likes of Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Eminem, Lizzo, Mike Will Made It, and Kacey Musgraves, among others. 

Burton has been nominated for four Grammy Awards for his work with Bon Iver on their respective 22, A Million and i,i albums, Sylvan Esso on their album What Now, and Low on their album Hey What.

Career 

From 2010 to 2013, Burton performed and served production duties as a member of the Love Language; he produced their albums Libraries and Ruby Red.

Burton has worked extensively with Justin Vernon and Bon Iver. His collaborations with Vernon and Francis and the Lights have led to work with artists including Chance the Rapper, Eminem, Kanye West, Mike Will Made It, and more. Burton has also performed as a member of Bon Iver, on the Come Through tour in 2018.

Songwriting and production discography

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Record producers from North Carolina
Songwriters from North Carolina