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David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) [1] is a retired American singer-songwriter, guitarist, musician and producer, frontman and co-lead singer (with Jimmy Griffin) of the group Bread, which reached the top of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s.
The band was fronted by David Gates (vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, violin, viola, percussion) with Jimmy Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion) and Robb Royer (bass guitar, guitar, flute, keyboards, percussion, recorder, backing vocals).
David Gates is a multi-disciplinary personality in the music field. He is a singer, guitarist, lyricist, composer, and musician. Gates also holds numerous credits as a song producer.
David Gates, the renowned American musician and songwriter, has long been admired for his contributions to the music industry. As fans and admirers wonder about his present endeavors, we delve into Gates’ current activities to shed light on his post-music career.
Here's something not many fans of soft-rock singer David Gates -- formerly the songwriter and voice behind Bread -- will know. When he was a much younger man he wrote and produced some material with one of rock's greatest and most musically challenging eccentrics, Frank Zappa protege Captain Beefheart.
David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist. [1] [2] His works have been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist. His first novel, Jernigan (1991), about a dysfunctional one-parent family, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1992 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
David Ashworth Gates is a retired American singer-songwriter, guitarist, musician and producer, frontman and co-lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the top of the musical...
In this comic, fiercely compassionate novel, David Gates, whose first novel Jernigan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, sends his protagonist on a visceral journey to the dark side of suburban masculinity, explores the claims youth makes on middle age, and the tenacious --at times perverse--power of love to assert itself.
In his time capsule capture as the leader of Bread, David Gates is forever seen as an extremely mellow fellow, the man behind the feel-good West Coast ballads Everything I Own, If, and Make It With You; gauzy, grown-up love songs full of sun-kissed confidence, just add soft-focus.