That's some first-rate trolling. And somebody's going to get banned from being able to edit on Wikipedia.
Born in Akron. I've always found it astonishing that Quincy Jones first heard him sing on the demo for Ingrams' Just Once but when they met Ingram told Jones that he didn't really think he had a good enough voice to be a lead singer. He'd only done the demo to sell the song to a real singer.
Absolutely insane that he got a solo singing role on We Are The World, with the likes of Smokey Robinson, Bette Midler, Harry Belafonte in the chorus.