Twenty-five years ago today, Phyllis Hyman was scheduled to perform at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.
She was to join R&B vocal quartet The Whispers for their 30th anniversary celebration, but the group learned upon their arrival for sound check that Hyman was ill and might cancel her performance.
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jenice Armstrong wrote of her death in 2007, “In addition to battling bipolar disorder, Hyman also suffered from drug and food addictions as well as alcoholism.
The night of Hyman’s death, the Apollo show went on as scheduled.
Source: Phyllis Hyman: Final Hours Remembered on the Anniversary of Her 1995 Death [EUR Video Throwback]
