Your complete guide to Damon Harris Net Worth 2024, Age, Height, Bio, Birthday, Wiki, including key takeaways.
Damon Harris is one of the richest R&B Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Damon Harris's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was born in Baltimore and founded an Temptations tribute group known as The Young Tempts.
He created The Damon Harris Cancer Foundation after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Damon Harris (born Otis Robert Harris Jr., July 17, 1950 – February 18, 2013) was an American soul and R&B singer, most notable as a member of The Temptations from 1971 to 1975. Twenty years old when he joined the group, Harris was the youngest member of The Temptations during his tenure in the group. As a teenager Harris had formed a Temptations tribute band named The Young Tempts (a.k.a. The Young Vandals). The group had charted singles released on T-Neck Records, and later had a few minor hits under the name Impact. He also was instrumental in his former singing group partner, Billy Griffin, getting the opportunity to replace Smokey Robinson in The Miracles. Harris later founded, and became the CEO of, The Damon Harris Cancer Foundation dedicated to promoting the awareness, diagnosis, and treatment of prostate cancer.
After leaving the group, the dejected Harris decided to reform The Young Vandals with Simms, Timmons (Kareem Ali), and Tilghman, renaming the group Impact, and signing a deal with Atco Records in 1976. Working with a Philadelphia soul production team, Impact recorded a number of minor soul and disco hits, including “Happy Man” and the #5 disco hit “Give a Broken Heart a Break”. The group released only one album on Atco, 1976’s Impact, before being dropped from the label because of low sales. Impact signed with Fantasy Records in 1977 and issued the album The Pac is Back, which also suffered from slow sales. The group disbanded and Harris recorded some solo singles of his own including 1978’s “It’s Music”, and the album Silk.
Damon Harris soon retired from music and moved to Reno, Nevada to complete college. In the 1990s, he returned to music and began touring, sometimes billing himself as The Temptations Review Starring Damon Harris. Richard Street, another ex-Temptation, periodically performed with Harris’ Temptations review until he formed his own Temptations group. He also briefly toured with former Temptations David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks and Dennis Edwards before Ruffin and Kendricks died.
