Five-Time Platinum Recording Star Jeffrey Osborne Performs

The August Wilson Center presents R&B sensation Jeffrey Osborne on Thursday, December 14, 2017, at 8 p.m. Pittsburgh audiences will enjoy an intimate concert in the beautiful 472-seat theater of the August Wilson Center, as Mr. Osborne performs holiday favorites as well as a repertoire of classics including “Stay with Me Tonight,” “Only Human,” and the international hit “On the Wings of Love.”

“It is a great honor to welcome Jeffrey Osborne to the stage of the August Wilson Center,” says AWC president and CEO Janis Burley Wilson. “Mr. Osborne has been playing to sold-out houses across the country filled with adoring audiences of funk, soul and R&B. This concert is part of the Center’s renewed efforts to present world-class performances by esteemed, award-winning African American artists. It promises to be a very special evening.”

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Jeffrey Osborne was the youngest of 12 children and was surrounded by music as he was growing up. He had five brothers and six sisters, some of whom went on to have music careers. His father, Clarence “Legs” Osborne, was a popular trumpeter who sat in with the likes of Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington and turned down many top band offers during his career to be with his family, he passed away when Jeffrey was only 13. At the age of 15, Jeffrey sat in with the O\’Jays when the drummer was unable to perform to their standards, and went on to play with them for two weeks. That was all the inspiration Osborne needed to pursue a musical career.

It was at another Providence nightclub that fate brought him together with the band Love Men Ltd. It was only after receiving his mother’s encouragement that Jeffrey left for Los Angeles to play with Love Men Ltd. who later changed their name to L.T.D. Osborne was originally brought on as the drummer and eventually became the lead vocalist.  After more than ten years with the band, he decided to pursue a solo career, which produced such Top 40 hits as ” Really Don’t Need No Light”, “Stay With Me Tonight”, and a duet with Dionne Warwick, “Love Power.”

Osborne’s solo career has brought him four grammy nominations, five gold and platinum albums, including his debut self titled album “Jeffrey Osborne”, “Stay with Me Tonight” and “Only Human”. He scored an international hit with “On the Wings of Love” in 1982. His latest project entitled “Worth It All” will be released in January 2018 on Mack Avenue Records. This project was written and produced by Jeffrey Osborne, with the exception of one song entitled “Work It” which was co-written with his son Jeffrey Osborne Jr. who also performed on the track with him. This project, inspired by the late great George Duke has taken Osborne back to his deep R&B roots.