Percy Sledge

Percy Sledge was born on Nov 25, 1940 in USA. Percy Sledge's big-screen debut came with More American Graffiti directed by Bill Norton in 1979. Percy Sledge is known for This Is England directed by Shane Meadows, Thomas Turgoose stars as Shaun and Stephen Graham as Combo. The upcoming new movie Percy Sledge plays is Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw which will be released on Aug 02, 2019.

Alabama-born Percy Sledge had a somewhat unusual introduction to the music business. Working as an orderly in a local hospital, he was touring with a local band called the Esquires Combo on weekends and working at the hospital during the week. A former patient at the hospital who knew both Sledge and local record producer Quin Ivy introduced them to each other. Ivy was impressed with Sledge's emotional style of singing and signed him to a recording contract. Sledge hit it big with his first record, the classic "When a Man Loves a Woman", released by Atlantic Records, which went on to become a worldwide hit (and, incidentally, the first Atlantic record to go gold). Although Sledge never had another hit as big as "When a Man Loves a Woman," he did manage to place several follow-up records on the charts. He still tours today, and has an especially large following in Europe.