Glenn Medeiros
What was the point of him being in this.
shareWho was he?
shareJust the best damn singer ever!
sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUg5aEy-8CQ
“After his musical career peaked, Medeiros taught and was vice-principal at the Maryknoll School, a parochial school in Honolulu, Hawaii, and as a professor at Chaminade University, a private Marianist university which shares its grounds with Saint Louis School. On July 1, 2015, Medeiros became the Head of School/Principal of Saint Louis School in Honolulu, and in 2017 its president/CEO.”
Imagine seeing your principal provide music for Daniel’s terrible dance moves.
Just the best damn principal ever!
shareGlenn Medeiros was lucky to get Bobby Brown on a song. Medeiros had gotten his start on Amherst Records, a small indie label based in Buffalo. By 1990, Medeiros had a joint deal with Amherst and MCA, which made him sort-of labelmates with Bobby Brown, but that’s not why Brown is on “She Ain’t Worth It.” Leonard Silver, the head of Amherst, was friends with Rick James, the troubled funk superstar. (James’ highest-charting single as lead artist, 1978’s “You And I,” peaked at #13.) Rick James, meanwhile, was friends with Bobby Brown, and I can really only imagine how skeezy those hangout sessions must’ve been. At some point, James convinced Brown to get on a song with this Glenn Medeiros kid. “She Ain’t Worth It” was already done before Brown jumped on it, but that Bobby Brown verse is presumably the only reason why the song went anywhere.share
Really, though, Glenn Medeiros was lucky to have a pop career at all. Medeiros has one of those great random-connections career stories. Medeiros had grown up on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, and he was a kid when he entered a local radio station’s talent contest. (When Medeiros was born, the #1 song in America was the Beatles’ “The Long And Winding Road.”) In that 1986 talent contest, the 16-year-old Medeiros sang a version of “Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You,” a drippy Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin ballad that George Benson had recorded a year earlier. Benson’s original recording was not a hit, but Medeiros liked the song, and he used it to win the contest. Medeiros got to fly to Honolulu, and he was awarded $500 and a chance to record his version of the song.