James Ingram's voice defined the grown-up romance of quiet storm R&B
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Jan 30, 2019
3 minutes
James Ingram was asked so many times about his big break that he developed a kind of shorthand for the tale of his being discovered by Quincy Jones.
An Ohio-born musician who'd moved to Los Angeles to make it in show business, Ingram was recording demos for a music publisher around 1980 when he cut "Just Once," a tender romantic ballad written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.
"They got 'Just Once' to Quincy, peddling him
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