Percy Tyrone Sledge was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. The singer sky-rocketed to the top of both the Hot 100 and R&B charts with his dramatic, heartrending ballad "When a Man Loves a Woman" – his debut single and one of Rolling Stone's Greatest Songs of All Time – in 1966. Having previously worked as a hospital orderly in the early 1960s, Sledge achieved his strongest success in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a series of emotional soul songs. Sledge was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
Percy Tyrone Sledge was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. The singer sky-rocketed to the top of both the Hot 100 and R&B charts with his dramatic, heartrending ballad "When a Man Loves a Woman" – his debut single and one of Rolling Stone's Greatest Songs of All Time – in 1966. Having previously worked as a hospital orderly in the early 1960s, Sledge achieved his strongest success in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a series of emotional soul songs. Sledge was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
