Keith Barrow Keith Barrow Keith Errol Barrow (September 27, 1954 – October 22, 1983) was an American Disco/Soul singer and songwriter born and raised in Chicago. He was most known for being the son of Civil rights activist and minister Reverend Willie Taplin Barrow. Barrow was born in Chicago and had gospel singing background. He was the only child of his civil rights and human activist mother Rev. Willie Barrow, who was known as 'The High Priestess of Protest', and served the National Executive Director and Chairman of the Board of The Rainbow of Rev. Jesse Jackson's Push Organization/Coalition and Clyde Barrow,
Ed Barrow AL president Will Harridge offered Barrow the job of Commissioner of Baseball to succeed Kenesaw Mountain Landis; Barrow declined, as he felt he was too old and his health was in decline. Barrow was known as "Uncle Egbert" to his friends; according to writer Tom Meany, Babe Ruth referred to him as "Barrows," treating him as if he were "a butler in an English drawing room comedy." He resided in Rye, New York. He first married in 1898, but did not discuss it in any of his writings. His second marriage was to Fannie Taylor Briggs in January 1912; he