Barbra Streisand shares tribute to late producer Richard Perry: “He was a truly special person”
nme.comBarbra Streisand has shared a tribute to the late record producer – and her past collaborator – Richard Perry.Earlier this week (December 24), Perry passed away aged 82.
His cause of death was cardiac arrest, as confirmed by his friend Daphna Kastner Keitel.“He maximized his time here,” Kastner said in a statement, per AP. “He was generous, fun, sweet and made the world a better place.
The world is a little less sweeter without him here. But it’s a little bit sweeter in heaven.”On Christmas Day (December 25), Streisand shared her own tribute to Perry, accompanied with a picture of the duo in the studio, taken on an unknown date. “Richard had an uncanny ability to pick the hits, and most important to me, a wonderful sense of humor,” she wrote. “We had such fun in the studio…and we became really good life-long friends”She continued: “We worked together on two albums, ‘Stoney End’ and ‘Barbra Joan Streisand’, where he encouraged me to record contemporary songs.
It was exciting to explore that kind of material with him.”“By the way, Richard thought Laura Nyro’s ‘Stoney End’ would be a hit for me, and I thought he was nuts!
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