Peabo Bryson, a two-time Grammy and Oscar winner from Greenville who is famed for iconic Disney duets and R&B hits, has died after suffering a stroke, according to media reports. He was 75.

“With broken hearts and profound sadness, the family of two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and balladeer, Peabo Bryson, announces his passing,” Bryson’s family said in a statement to Variety.

Bryson rose to prominence in the early 1990s after recording the Disney songs “Beauty and the Beast” — a duet with Celine Dion — and “A Whole New World,” sung with Regina Belle. Both won an Oscar and a Grammy.

Born in Greenville in 1951, Bryson grew up in the city’s Southernside neighborhood and attended the segregated Beck High School. His mother regularly took him to downtown venues to see artists including Sam Cooke, Little Richard and Billie Holiday, experiences he credited with sparking his love of music.

He cut his teeth playing with local bands, including Al Freeman and the Upsetters and Moses Dillard and the Tex-Town Display, before launching a solo career in Atlanta.

Bryson was an acclaimed musician before ascending to Disney stardom. His second album, “Reaching for the Sky,” went gold in 1978, and he earned eight Grammy nominations for hits including “If Ever You’re in My Arms Again,” “Can You Stop the Rain,” and “Without You.”

In 2024, local artists unveiled a 15-foot-high mural of Bryson on the Commons at Unity Park near his childhood home.

When the musician returned to the city in 2023 to perform at the Peace Center, Greenville leaders announced a section of Academy Street would be renamed as Peabo Bryson Boulevard, and Mayor Knox White presented him with the key to the city.