Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Legendary Singer / Songwriter, Peabo Bryson.
Peabo Bryson is a legendary singer and songwriter who is widely referred to as “the voice of love”.
In a career spanning 5 decades, Peabo Bryson’s rich, soulful voice has brought us 21 albums, 5 of which have been certified gold, in addition to 8 compilation albums. He’s released 57 hit singles including “Reaching for the Sky”, “I’m So Into You”, “Minute by Minute”, “Let the Feeling Flow”, “If Ever You’re In my Arms Again”, “Show & Tell”, “Can You Stop the Rain”, and of course, he’s recorded some of the greatest duets of the past century including “Gimme Some Time” and “What You Won’t Do for Love” with Natalie Cole, “Here We Go” with Minnie Ripperton, “Make the World Stand Still”, “Tonight I Celebrate My Love” and “You’re Lookin’ Like Love to Me” with Roberta Flack, “Lovers After All” with Melissa Manchester, “You Are My Home” with Linda Eder, “By the Time This Night Is Over” with Kenny G, “We Kiss in the Shadows” with Lea Salonga, and of course we all remember the mega-blockbuster classic duets which earned Peabo Bryson TWO Grammy Awards: “Beauty and the Beast” with Celine Dion, and “A Whole New World” with Regina Belle, and BOTH of those songs won Academy Awards for the Disney animated feature films, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin”.
Peabo Bryson is so phenomenally successful, that he’s the first artist in music history to have separate songs topping FOUR different Billboard charts: pop, R & B, Classical Crossover and Contemporary Jazz. And if all of that weren’t enough, he has also starred onstage in “Raisin”, and he played “The Wizard” in “The Wiz”, and he starred as “Sporting Life” in the Michigan Opera’s 100th Anniversary Production of “Porgy and Bess”.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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