{"id":20295,"date":"2025-06-27T23:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20295\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:16:08","slug":"public-viewing-for-late-dallas-born-rb-singer-cavin-yarbrough-set-for-fair-park-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20295\/","title":{"rendered":"Public viewing for late Dallas-born R&B singer Cavin Yarbrough set for Fair Park on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

A public viewing for Cavin Yarbrough, the Dallas-born R&B singer who died on June 19, has been scheduled for Sunday at Fair Park\u2019s Hall of State, according to his obituary<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Yarbrough was 72. <\/p>\n

His wife, Alisa Peoples, confirmed his death, citing complications from heart disease, in a statement posted to Instagram by family representative Michele Elyzabeth. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was the love of my life, my protector. Now he\u2019s my guardian angel,\u201d the statement said. <\/p>\n

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Yarbrough and Peoples, who formed the eponymous R&B duo, rose to fame in the \u201980s with their song \u201cDon\u2019t Stop The Music.\u201d <\/p>\n

The couple grew up together, attending the same church and taking lessons from the same music teacher, according to a resolution<\/a> adopted by the Texas legislature in 2021 honoring the duo. <\/p>\n

In 1979, they left Dallas, driving to Los Angeles to pursue their career in Yarbrough\u2019s black Volkswagen, according to a 1995 news release<\/a> from the then-called Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters. <\/p>\n

\u201cLive performances are a large part of our musical career. When we are on stage, we get an opportunity to make it a party instead of just another performance,\u201d Yarbrough said at that time. <\/p>\n

In the years after the duo\u2019s hit single, Yarbrough was active in the theater world. He arranged music for a production based on the life of the Texas-born blues luminary Blind Lemon Jefferson called Blind Lemon Blues. He also played Jefferson\u2019s friend and fellow musician, Huddie \u201cLead Belly\u201d Ledbetter, in the musical, The News reported in 2004. <\/p>\n

There will also be a celebration of life for Yarbrough on Monday at 11 a.m., hosted by the Black Academy of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A public viewing for Cavin Yarbrough, the Dallas-born R&B singer who died on June 19, has been scheduled…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,975,4006,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-20295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-pop-music","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114757879978083761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}