The following year, Gerald came back with a duet with his father and scored another number one single with "Baby Hold on to Me" and the number three single "School Me," reminiscent of Babyface's "Whip Appeal." However, in the midst of all his success, Gerald's only major pop appeal remained the "Casanova" single. The title track spawned his first number one single as a solo artist on the Billboard R&B charts. He also managed to make room for a duet with labelmate Miki Howard, recording the number four single "That's What Love Is." In 1991, Gerald released his solo debut album, Private Line. Initially, Gerald recorded with the group, scoring five number one singles, seven Top Ten singles, and four Top 20 singles on the Billboard R&B charts, including the Reggie and Vincent Calloway-written and produced number one single "Casanova," which also peaked at number four on the Billboard pop charts. Nonetheless, that single set up a deal with Atlantic Records the following year, and it could not have been a better move. Peaking on the Billboard R&B charts at number 70, it survived for eight weeks. Even though Gerald was still maturing as a vocalist, his powerful, stirring delivery on the single is worthy of praise. They recorded their first single, entitled "I'm Still," on the independent Tempre label. As Gerald was entering his adulthood, he, good friend Marc Gordon, and his brother Sean formed the trio LeVert. As a child, his father's status in the music industry nurtured and helped prepare Gerald for his prosperous music career as a writer, arranger, producer, and performer. Even as just my friend.A contemporary soul singer whose smooth yet robust vocals brought energy and emotion to even his most serene recordings, Gerald LeVert grew up in the shadows of his father, Eddie LeVert, Sr., of the O'Jays. Looking at an image of him shown during the podcast, she remarked, “I wish he was still here. At the time I was engaged, broke up with me from that one article.”ĭespite that light blowup of her life, Whitley only has positive memories of the relationship, romantic and platonic, she had with Gerald Levert. And he said, ‘The one true love of my life is Kym Whitley,'” she recalled.
If you really want to know how much Gerald cared about me, there was an article, he did an interview and I didn’t know. “There was an article in Sister 2 Sister magazine. She apparently was the one who got away for him, too. We went through so much as young people that I would say, I won’t say scarred me, but there were some things that happened with us that will make you as you grow up look back and say, ‘I guess I could have handled that differently.” “Because it was a chapter in my life, I was so young. Looking back, he was the one who got away. His shocking death was caused by an accidental overdose of a combination of prescription medication and over-the-counter drugs. “We said when we turn 50 years old…if we’re not married at 50 we will marry each other.” Sadly, Levert passed away at the age of 40 in 2006. “We made a pact,” she said during the podcast. He never married, and to this day, neither has she. “But at the same time, I’ve enjoyed my life so far and wouldn’t change it, especially my kids.”
“I wish I would’ve been smarter,” he previously said. He ended up having three children by three different women and once spoke about regrets he had concerning how he handled himself in regards to the ladies he had his kids with. He called her to complain about them, she joked. She was a support through all of his girlfriends and even a fiancée. So they stayed close but saw other people. I’m out!’ I did that to a lot of relationships.” “When you go on the road and you work like that and you come home, you don’t want your wife over there, ‘I gotta go to the Improv. I was like, ‘how dare you?’ But I get it now,” she added. He said, ‘There can only be one star in this family.'” “I didn’t understand that then and I remember he told me, it hurt my feelings. She admitted that didn’t work for a number of relationships. He was an established singer with adoring fans and she was a burgeoning actress and comedienne trying to do her own thing. Apparently, Marlon Wayans Is ‘Blessed’ Below The Belt, Kym Whitley Recounts This Righteous Revelationīut the two could never really make it work in the way that they wanted.
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