Peabo Bryson, Grammy-winning voice of Disney classics, dies at 75

Peabo Bryson, who spent five decades placing his warm, generous voice in service of songs rather than celebrity, died Tuesday at 75, surrounded by family in the city where his career had long been rooted. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, and shaped by Atlanta's music world, he became one of popular music's most trusted interpreters of the ballad — a man whose greatest monuments were not his own name on a marquee, but the emotional architecture he built inside other people's childhoods. His two Grammy-winning Disney duets, recorded in the 1990s, gave animated wonder a human voice, and that v