Walter Scott, a co-founding member of the R&B group the Whispers, has died, the Los Angeles Sentinel experiences. Scott had been dwelling with most cancers for six months, and he died within the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, in line with the report. Scott was 81 years outdated.
Scott and his twin brother, Wallace “Scotty” Scott, co-founded the Whispers, in California, with Nicholas Caldwell, Marcus Hutson, and Gordy Harmon within the early Nineteen Sixties. The group launched its first singles in 1964 by way of Doré Information, however an album didn’t materialize till 1969 within the type of Planets of Life, launched through Soul Clock.
Regardless of a prolific output, the Whispers didn’t discover business success till the late Seventies once they joined Dick Griffey’s SOLAR Information. The group’s 1979 self-titled album, specifically, was massively fashionable and contained the band’s signature tune, “And the Beat Goes On.” Subsequent albums, like 1980’s Creativeness, 1982’s Love Is The place You Discover It, and 1987’s Simply Will get Higher With Time, solidified the Whispers as a dependable power within the worlds of soul, R&B, and disco.
The Roots’ Questlove eulogized Walter Scott on Instagram, calling him “one of the vital trusted voices in 70s soul music.”