Born in St. Louis, MO, Peaston was a former schoolteacher, who, in the late 1980s, won several competitions on the Showtime at the Apollo television show, impressing the the audience with a powerful rendition of “God Bless the Child.”
Peaston won a Soul Train Music Award in 1990 for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist.
Peaston’s mother, Martha Bass, was a member of The Clara Ward Singers gospel group. His older sister is R&B/soul singer Fontella Bass. In 1993, he recorded a gospel album with Fontella and Martha Bass entitled Promises: A Family Portrait Of Faith. He also sang on Lester Bowie’s The One and Only.
In 2006, David Peaston returned to music with his album, Song Book: Songs of Soul & Inspiration. The album featured eight new tracks by Peaston, as well as several of his biggest hits.
Diabetes Facts…
Diabetes is a disease in which the body has problems producing or using insulin, a hormone needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy.
Compared to the general population, African Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes:
• 4.9 million (an increase from 3.7 million in 2007), or 18.7% of all African Americans, aged 20 years or older, also have diabetes.
• African Americans are 1.8 times more likely to have diabetes as non Hispanic whites.
• 25 percent of African Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have diabetes.
• 1 in 4 African American women over 55 years of age has diabetes.
For healthy, everyday ways to manage diabetes, visit BlackDoctor.org’s Living With Diabetes Channel.