Billy Newton-Davis – Love Is A Contact Sport. Label: Columbia – PCC-80112. Format: Vinyl, LP, Album.
Billy Newton-Davis grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. He was one of two lead singers in a local soul band called The Illusions in high school. He received his Bachelor Of Fine Arts Degree from Ohio University. After graduating he moved to New York to pursue his dreams as a singer, actor, dancer on Broadway. He came to Toronto, Ontario in 1980, and did more live theatre but really wanted to focus on becoming a recording artist. His debut album, Love Is a Contact Sport, won the Juno Award for best R&B/soul recording in 1986 and included the hits Deeper, Right Beside You and Find My Way Back. His 1989 follow up, Spellbound, included his biggest Canadian chart hit, I Can’t Take It, as well as the Celine Dion duet Can’t Live With You, Can’t Live Without You and again won the Juno for best R&B/soul recording. Newton-Davis subsequently joined The Nylons in 1991.
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Billy Newton-Davis Before: The Cleveland-born singer played in local soul band The Illusions before moving to New York and performing on Broadway, then relocating to Toronto. Newton-Davis’ first LP, Love Is a Contact Sport, also won the Juno for best R&B recording. After: In 1989, Newton-Davis had a hit with Can’t Live with You, a duet with Celine Dion. The singer, who is openly gay, went public with his HIV-positive diagnosis in a 2000 Vision TV documentary
Billy Davis Jr. (born June 26, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American musician, best known as a member of the 5th Dimension. Along with his wife, Marilyn McCoo, he had hit records during 1976 and 1977 with "I Hope We Get to Love in Time", "Your Love", and "You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)". Davis and McCoo were married in 1969