Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. ^ For Ruby Turner collaboration: "Ruby Turner | Awards".^ a b c "Jonathan Butler Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography".^ "Jonathan Butler - Jonathan Butler (album)".^ "Chart History: Jonathan Butler - TOP GOSPEL ALBUMS".^ "Chart History: Jonathan Butler - CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ALBUMS".^ "Chart History: Jonathan Butler - JAZZ ALBUMS".Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. ^ "Chart History: Jonathan Butler - TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS".^ "Chart History: Jonathan Butler - BILLBOARD 200".^ "Jonathan Butler's House (former) in Bell Canyon, CA (Google Maps)".Archived from the original on 11 November 2010.
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^ a b c "JONATHAN BUTLER - full Official Chart History". "South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Acts (B)". "There's One Born Every Minute (I'm a Sucker for You)" "Baby Please Don't Take It (I Need Your Love)" " If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)" (with Ruby Turner) Dave Grusin Presents West Side Story (1997) (Featured soloist - Maria). Divine Voices: Pastors of Praise (2015). Christmas Goes Gospel: Tis the Season (2014). "-" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. Jonathan Butler in 1996 Studio albums Year Butler's contribution to the album was a jazz cover of No Woman No Cry.īutler maintained a loyal following in the 1980s and 1990s, in South Africa, the United States and Europe. In 2001, Butler was featured in a compilation album that was a jazz tribute to Bob Marley produced by Lee Ritenour, A Twist of Marley. His single "Lies", also reached the UK Official Singles Chart, peaking at number 18, spending 12 weeks, in total, in the top 100. His international breakthrough came in 1987 with his Grammy-nominated hit single, " Lies" which reached #27 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, and his cover version of the Staple Singers song " If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)", which he performed with Ruby Turner. The manager of Mountain Records, Paddy Lee-Thorp was also Butler's manager and in the early 1980s they signed Jonathan to Jive Records and he moved to the United Kingdom, where he remained for seventeen years. He left the label to join Mountain Records after a few years. All three releases were issued by Mountain Records.īutler was signed to CCP Records, a predecessor to Jive Records in 1977. Two albums were recorded with the Express personnel, and some Pacific Express songs were later released on the 1988 7th Avenue album. In 1978, he found the inspiration and encouragement to begin expressing himself as a composer and songwriter when he joined Cape Town's best known jazz/rock outfit, the Pacific Express. "I'll Be Home" reached number 16 in 1976. The same year his cover of " I Love How You Love Me" by The Paris Sisters reached number 4. 
In 1975, his cover of " Please Stay" by the Drifters reached number 2 in South Africa. He began touring at the age of seven when he joined a travelling stage show, and was later signed up to perform on a string of hit recordings, turning him into a local teen idol. His first single was the first by a black artist played by white radio stations in the racially segregated South Africa and earned a Sarie Award, South Africa's equivalent to the Grammy Awards. Racial segregation and poverty during Apartheid has been the subject of many of his records. His music is often classified as R&B, jazz fusion or worship music.īorn and raised in Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa, during Apartheid, Butler started singing and playing acoustic guitar as a child. Jonathan Kenneth Butler (born 10 October 1961) is a South African singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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