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Some of Osborne's siblings went on to have music careers as well; his brother Billy Osborne was his band-mate in L.T.D. Osborne's father, Clarence "Legs" Osborne, was a popular trumpeter who played with [[Lionel Hampton]], [[Count Basie]] and [[Duke Ellington]]. Osborne's father died in 1961 when Osborne was thirteen.<ref name="vh1.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/osborne_jeffrey/bio.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030429204319/http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/osborne_jeffrey/bio.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 29, 2003 |title=Jeffrey Osborne Bio | Jeffrey Osborne Career | MTV |website=Vh1.com |access-date=2013-06-20}}</ref> ===L.T.D.=== Osborne began his music career in 1970 becoming a member of the American soul band "Love Men Ltd.", who would later become known as L.T.D.<ref name="LarkinSM"/> The band recorded [[hit single]]s such as "[[(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again]]" (1977), "Concentrate on You," "[[Love Ballad (L.T.D. song)|Love Ballad]]" (1976) and "[[Holding On (When Love Is Gone)]]" (1978). At first, Osborne served as only a drummer, sharing lead vocal duties with his brother Billy Osborne but, by 1976, he became the group's primary lead vocalist. Osborne and his brother both left the band in late 1980 to start solo careers.<ref name="LarkinSM"/> Osborne sang lead vocals on L.T.D.'s three No. 1 songs on the U.S. R&B Chart and for the band's three gold and platinum albums. ===Solo career=== In 1982, Osborne sang the opening song "I Just Want to Be Your Friend" for the comedy film ''[[The Toy (1982 film)|The Toy]]''. Osborne later released his [[Jeffrey Osborne (album)|self-titled debut album]] in 1982, which featured two hit singles, "[[On the Wings of Love (song)|On the Wings of Love]]" and "I Really Don't Need No Light" (1982),<ref name="LarkinSM"/> peaking at No. 29 and No. 39, respectively, on the [[Billboard Hot 100|pop chart]]. It was followed the next year by ''[[Stay with Me Tonight (album)|Stay with Me Tonight]]'', his first solo gold album, which spawned four more hits, "Don't You Get So Mad" (No. 25), the title track (No. 30), "Plane Love" (No. 10 R&B, No. 6 dance), and "We're Going All the Way (No. 48). "Stay with Me Tonight" (May 1984, No. 18) and "On the Wings of Love" (August 1984, No. 11) would belatedly reach the [[UK Singles Chart]].<ref name="LarkinSM"/> In 1985, Osborne wrote the [[lyrics]] to the [[Whitney Houston]] hit "[[All at Once (Whitney Houston song)|All at Once]]" (music by [[Michael Masser]]). He appeared on [[USA for Africa]]'s fundraising single, "[[We Are the World]]" in 1985. Osborne sang the unreleased single "Everything Good Takes Time" which was part of a video tribute to [[Julius Erving]] ('Dr. J') in 1987. He would later appear on ''[[Celebrity Duets]]'' in 2006, performing "On the Wings of Love" with [[Alfonso Ribeiro]]. Osborne lent his vocals to the theme song of the soap opera, ''[[Loving (TV series)|Loving]]'', from 1992 to 1995<ref name="vh1.com"/> as well as the first-season theme song for the [[Kirstie Alley]] comedy ''[[Veronica's Closet]]''. Osborne had two more gold albums, ''Don't Stop'' and ''Emotional'', the latter of which had his [[record chart|highest-charting]] solo pop hit, "[[You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)|You Should Be Mine]]", which peaked at No. 13 in 1986.<ref name="LarkinSM"/> The following year, Osborne had the highest-charting hit of his career [[duet (music)|duetting]] with [[Dionne Warwick]] on "[[Love Power (Dionne Warwick song)|Love Power]]",<ref name="LarkinSM"/> which reached No. 12 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and also topped the [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Adult Contemporary]] singles chart. It was a turning point in his pop success, as his albums and singles began charting lower and lower.<ref name="LarkinSM"/> Osborne's 1988 single "[[She's on the Left]]" would be his final Hot 100 entry, as well as his only No. 1 R&B hit. ===Later career=== In the new millennium, he returned with a series of albums that, while far from the success he enjoyed in the 1980s, returned him to Adult R&B radio, scoring modest chart singles such as "Rest of Our Lives" (No. 75, 2003) and his cover of [[Barbara Mason]]'s classic "[[Yes, I'm Ready]]" (No. 64, 2005). In 2008, Osborne sang the [[The Star-Spangled Banner|national anthem]] before game 4 of the [[2008 NBA Finals|NBA Finals]] at [[Staples Center]] in Los Angeles, a feat which he repeated in 2009 before game 1 of the [[2009 NBA Finals]], and also again in 2010 before game 1 of the [[2010 NBA Finals|NBA Finals]], all at Staples Center. He also performed the national anthem prior to game 3 of the [[1988 World Series]], a feat he repeated two years later at game 3 of the [[1990 World Series]], both at the [[Oakland Alameda County Coliseum]] in [[Oakland, California]]. He also regularly sang the national anthem before [[Hartford Whalers]] games. On March 1, 2010, Osborne appeared on ''[[The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love]]'' season finale, "After the Final Rose", singing his hit "On the Wings of Love" while Bachelor [[Jake Pavelka]] took to the dance floor with his newly announced fiancée, Vienna Girardi. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! 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