I Got Your Back: A Father and Son Keep It Real About Love, Fatherhood, Family, and Friendship

Sr. Eddie Levert · Gerald Levert

May 2009 · Sold by Crown

About this eBook

The final collaboration from Eddie and Gerald Levert: an intimate glimpse into their lives, their passions, and their musical legacy. But most important, I Got Your Back gets inside the special and rare father-son bond that these two R&B legends shared. Eddie and Gerald put their hearts and souls on the line and talk about their failures, concerns, fears, and triumphs as father and son. With a powerful message of reconciliation for broken families, Eddie and Gerald explore the themes of fatherhood, male bonding and male-female relationships. The book includes moving tributes from Eddie, Patti LaBelle, Steve Harvey and others, as well as treasured family photographs.

Ratings and reviews

The tag team story about the Swindle of be in the lime life without actually being in the media crossfire's of the of an attack that was sent the downfall of Their Blessings these are too young man basically two angels two brothers that really have the ability to Chase and keep their relationship in the world but they let everybody know that is out of the world because it's so private and it's so unique that this father and his son tag team Duo just set the trend of many blessings back to the way that this son has went to God and now this father has seen many other Greek things because her fan can I stop seeing what God had to bring him home but I see that in this is a great story that you can just like and love because it's a story that feeds you and it's not just thrown at you but you believe with it it just a great story

Man this is a very emotional book for me..Its a pity that Gerald died so soon..I wanted to meet him

Father & Son's Collaboration on Love, Family, Music, etc. Loved it!!!!😃😃😃😂

About the author

EDDIE LEVERT is one of the founding members of the pioneering 1970s soul group and 2005 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The O’Jays. He lives in Las Vegas.

Founder of the chart-topping group LeVert, GERALD LEVERT released his first solo album in 1991, and in 1997 formed LSG with Keith Sweat and Johnny Gill. Gerald also wrote and produced songs for many musical artists, including Barry White and Patti LaBelle. Gerald Levert passed away suddenly in 2006 at age forty.

LYAH BETH LeFLORE is the coauthor of the novel Cosmopolitan Girls, and the author of Last Night a DJ Saved My Life. Lyah has been a television producer and entertainment executive for over a decade and has worked at Nickelodeon, Uptown Entertainment, and Alan Haymon Productions.