10 Great Musicians That Are Slowly Being Forgotten

5. Donny Hathaway

Another incredible talent possibly being forgotten due to his early passing is Donny Hathaway. He had a voice that doesn€™t come along every day of the week, tender and full of angst. It flowed like honey and was built for singing in dark, smoky rooms in the fashionable districts of a city to a wide eyed audience. Perhaps more famous for his duets with Roberta Flack than his own languid solo albums, Hathaway€™s individual songs were full of different tones and rhythms, little soft screeches that explode gently like whale song and smooth melodies that are as soft as silk. Hathaway had a style that essentially perfected the rhythm and blues, unfortunately it seems that the easiest way to do that is to have genuine pain in your life. Hathaway suffered greatly from severe depression, was crippled by paranoid schizophrenia and took copious amounts of medication to deal with it all. As time went on he began to behave more and more irrationally and it came to a point when Hathaway could take no more and jumped from the balcony of his hotel room in New York. Hathaway left behind a sumptuous body of work that most of the world is seemingly allowing to gently fade away into the ether.