{"id":118821,"date":"2023-03-16T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T20:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118821"},"modified":"2023-03-16T15:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T20:06:02","slug":"singer-bobby-caldwell-dies-at-71-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118821","title":{"rendered":"Singer Bobby Caldwell Dies at 71- Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118821\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118821\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118822 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/download-9-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/download-9-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/download-9.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Singer-songwriter Bobby Caldwell, who was known for the R&amp;B hits \u201cWhat You Won\u2019t Do for Love\u201d and \u201cOpen Your Eyes\u201d passed away March 14, 2023, at his home in New Jersey. Caldwell had been struggling with health issues for the past six years after being \u201cfloxed\u201d, a condition that arises after an adverse effect from consuming an antibiotic. Caldwell died with his wife by his side. He was 71. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Caldwell was born in Manhattan but grew up in Miami. Living in Miami exposed Caldwell to a variety of music such as Haitian, Latin, reggae, and R&amp;B. When he was 12, Caldwell started playing piano and guitar. His first career break was playing rhyth guitar for Little Richard in the early 70s. By the late 70s Caldwell was signed to a record label. His debut album \u201cBobby Caldwell\u201d went double platinum. From that album, he released his signature song \u201cWhat You Won\u2019t Do for Love\u201d. Caldwell released a total of 16 studio albums between 1978 and 2015. Some of his other singles include \u201cCan\u2019t Say Goodbye\u201d, \u201cDown for the Third Time\u201d, and \u201cComing Down from Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Bobby Caldwell\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Singer-songwriter Bobby Caldwell, who was known for the R&amp;B hits \u201cWhat You Won\u2019t Do for Love\u201d and \u201cOpen Your Eyes\u201d passed away March 14, 2023, at his home in New Jersey. Caldwell had been struggling with health issues for the past six years after being \u201cfloxed\u201d, a condition that arises after an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[30632],"class_list":["post-118821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-singer-bobby-caldwell-dies-at-71-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118821"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}