David Gates (born December 11, 1940) is an #singer #songwriter, #musician and producer, best known as the frontman and co-lead #singer (with Jimmy Griffin) of the #soft #rock #group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.
Bread’s second album, On the Waters (a play on Ecclesiastes 11:1), with a new drummer, Mike Botts, was released in 1970, and became a breakout success. It contained the No. 1 single “Make It with You” and was the first of seven consecutive Bread albums to go Gold in the US. Bread’s next three albums, Manna(1971), Baby I’m-a Want You (1972) (featuring Larry Knechtel as a new member of the band, replacing Royer) and Guitar Man (1972) were also successful, with more chart singles and gold records. From 1970 to 1973, Bread charted 11 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, all of which were written and sung by Gates. That caused some antagonism between Gates and Griffin, who was also a significant contributor to Bread’s albums as a singer and songwriter. Bread disbanded in 1973, much to the surprise of fans and the music industry.Â
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