Lawrence Albert Payton was an American tenor, songwriter, vocal arranger and record producer for the popular Motown quartet, the Four Tops.
An excellent singer in his own right, Payton sang lead on the songs Feel Free, Until You Love Someone and The Girl From Ipanema from the Four Tops Live! album but he was often overshadowed by the more popular Levi Stubbs. He died in 1997, aged 59, from liver cancer in Southfield, Michigan. He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery. Payton had 11 children. One of...
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