- Best known for his hits "The Ghetto" and "This Christmas", as well as several chart-making hits with fellow Howard University classmate and friend, Roberta Flack.
- Suffered from crippling schizophrenia, which culminated in his suicide at the age of 33.
- Commited suicide by jumping from the 15th floor of New York's Essex House hotel on January 13, 1979.
- Attended Howard University, graduating with a degree in Music Theory.
- Daughter Kenya Hathaway, is a back-up singer on American Idol (2002).
- Was raised in St. Louis.
- Father of Donnita Hathaway.
- Son of Drusella Hunstley.
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