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Regina Belle (born July 17, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter who started her career in the mid-1980s. Known for her singles “Baby Come to Me” (1989) and “Make It Like It Was” (1990), Belle is most notable for three hit duets, all with Peabo Bryson: “Without You”, the love theme from the comedy film Leonard Part 6, recorded in 1987; “A Whole New World”, the main theme of the Disney’s animated feature film Aladdin recorded in 1992, with which Belle and Bryson won a Grammy Award; and “I Just Can’t Imagine”.
The theme song “Far Longer than Forever” from the animated movie The Swan Princess, performed with Jeffrey Osborne, was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1995 for Best Original Song.
Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey. It was at Englewood’s Mount Calvary Baptist Church, and then Paterson’s Friendship Baptist Church (presided over by Belle’s uncle, the Reverend Fred Belle), that Belle began attracting attention with her vocal abilities. She sang her first solo in church at the age of eight. She attended Dwight Morrow High School, where she studied trombone, tuba, and steel drums. After graduation, Belle studied opera at the Manhattan…
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