The singer of this song is white?!

[Secure Da Bag]

Y'all create this thread every year lol

True. But it's still funny. That man deserves his props.

Cookout legend. Probably the only white man legit invited.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

I didn't know Jon B was white til I was grown

Did you have glaucoma?

What in the Talcum X is you talkin about?

 

[Tribal Outkast]

I knew it was this song

Every year we go through this

Every damn year

 

[F*ckthemkids]

interesting thread op

 

[Premeditated]

I thought Bobby Coldwell was black this whole time?

and he sang this song?

what is going on?

it seems like everyone was groovy in the 70s and 80s.

 

[MajesticLion]

Lots of musical goodness came out of the 70s/80s. If your ear is balkanized as these radio stations or algorithms are pushing you to be...you're missing out.

 

[FlyGuy]

Bobby has a goat discography and some really good covers

 

[Low End Derrick]

Ain’t no way y’all and don’t know Bobby Caldwell was a cac.

 

[Regular Developer]

"Blue eyed soul" is the term.

Another example:

Hall & Oates my ppls. Got them on a couple playlists. Not gonna lie tho, and this gonna solidify my spot on the corny list, but Its because I first heard there music on Metal Gear Solid V, lol.

And If I'm real, a lot of the old school songs I know about are because of GTA San Andreas.

 

[Cakebatter]

She's not white, but she didn't look the way you thought she would. Black folks were tripping when they saw this video after hearing the song played on radio rotation.

 

[Arcavian]

Any popular examples of this going the other way? Is Living Colour the closest? I was never fooled though.



Darius Rucker never fooled me either. It's hard to hide a black voice, it doesn't matter the genre, most singers have some roots in the church. Speaking of which, those white college kids singing gospel broke my brain.

Howard Jones = black

 

[Deltron]

i love the pac flip of the song

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Back in the 70’s and early 80’s, white guys had soul. They actually studied and learned from the best Black musicians. A lot of them even had Black musicians play on their albums. And On the flip side, a lot of them wrote/played for some popular Black artists.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

They made some great samples out of his stuff too

 

[MaxBundles]

Not gonna even lie OP, because of you, I am today years old finding this out