R&B/Gospel Singer David Peaston Dies [VIDEO]

It's been such a sad week.  It's hard enough to deal with the passing of Soul Train founder Don Cornelius, but now comes word David Peaston has also passed.  Ironically, the same day!   The R&B/Gospel singer who shot to fame in the late '80s and early '90s with the hits "Two Wrongs (Don't Make It Right)" and "Can I?" died on Wednesday of complications from diabetes.

David unlike most of us, had the music gene from the very start beings that he was the son of Martha Bass of the gospel group the Clara Ward Singers.  For that matter the whole family was blessed, because his sister Fontella Bass sang the hit "Rescue Me".

Following in his family's footsteps and after a brief stint as a schoolteacher, he headed out to New York where he paid his dues doing session work for fellow gospel and R&B artists.  Then he got his big break by appearing on Showtime At The Apollo.  He took the show by storm singing his rendition of "God Bless the Child", winning several times before finally getting a record deal with Geffen Records.

In 1989, he released his debut album, Introducing…David Peaston, which turned out the soulful ballad, "Can I?" and the funky "Two Wrongs (Don't Make It Right)."  David would later go on tour with Gladys Knight and even win Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist.

He was an enormous talent and we will miss him as well.  R.I.P Mr. Peaston.