Eulaulah Hathaway is best known as the legendary soul singer Donny Hathaway’s wife. But she shared her husband’s ability to sing just about anything.
,” the legendary soul singer Donny Hathaway plays a deep bass line on electric piano and swoops up to his falsetto, as if to outline a shape that the song will fill with guitar, bass, congas, soul claps, and fragments of speech. Gradually, the song, in defiance of the two-dimensional image of the depraved “inner city” that was pushed by sociologists in the wake of the urban riots of the sixties, paints a portrait of the ghetto as a site of complex pleasures, untold stories, and unwritten rules.
Eulaulah was born in Danville, Virginia, to a family of bright, studious musicians and teachers. Her father, who had earned his doctorate from Boston University, was a minister at a church where her mother played hymns. Her elder sister was a musical prodigy who played the organ at Marsh Chapel, at Boston University. Eulaulah started piano lessons when she was six or seven, and she was working as a church accompanist by age eleven. She attended Howard University, in Washington, D.C.
Still, she adored the classical repertoire, which she performed as a first alto in Howard’s nationally renowned concert choir. Donny was in the choir, too, and they had several classes together, to which he rarely showed up. He was busy gigging around Washington, D.C., and he had already learned a great deal from classes that he took at Washington University, when he was still in high school. Plus, his reputation as a prodigy preceded him. His professors made him a deal.
They married and moved to Chicago, Donny’s birthplace, where he had been recruited to work as a writer and producer for Curtis Mayfield. Their circle of friends included Ramsey Lewis, Maurice White , and Minnie Riperton. At home, they listened to gospel, classical, and jazz, and they wrote countless commercial jingles, for companies like Pet Milk and McDonald’s. They also collaborated on Donny’s solo recordings.
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