Peabo Bryson, the Grammy-winning R&B singer whose soaring duets helped turn Disney ballads “Beauty and the Beast” and “A Whole New World” into early-1990s pop classics, died Tuesday, June 2. He was 75.
Bryson’s death came a little more than two months before he was scheduled to perform four shows at Yoshi’s in Oakland on Aug. 13-14.
His family announced his death Tuesday, saying he died “surrounded by the love of his family and those closest to him.”…