Producer Quincy Jones described Ingram as ‘a beautiful human being, with a heart the size of the moon’
US R&B artist James Ingram has died age 66. TMZ reported that he had brain cancer. Ingram won two Grammy awards during his career: his performance on the Quincy Jones song One Hundred Ways earned him best male R&B vocal performance in 1982, and Yah Mo B There, a collaboration with the Doobie Brothers’ Michael McDonald, won best R&B performance by a group or duo with vocals in 1985.
Ingram had two No 1 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart: Baby, Come to Me with Patti Austin in 1982, and I Don’t Have the Heart in 1990. He co-wrote with frequent collaborator Jones the songPYT (Pretty Young Thing), included on Michael Jackson’s 1982 album Thriller.
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