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Known for:	Another World, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Color Purple
Birth name:	Carlton Earl Anderson
Birthday:	27 February 1945, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA

Graduated from racially segregated Dunbar High School in the mid 60s. Returned to Lynchburg December 6, 1997 for special homecoming Christmas concert with 50 piece orchestra and 300 member chorus. Nominated for a Grammy award for his duet with Nancy Wilson called "Forbidden Lover." Received threats from people who disapproved of Jesus Christ Superstar. Married to Veronica, he had a son Khalil McGhee-Anderson from a previous marriage. In 1986 he recorded a duet with Gloria Loring, of Cruise of Deception: Days of Our Lives fame, called "Friends and Lovers." He recorded several albums in the 1980s and 1990s. He was so intent on establishing himself as a pop/jazz recording artist, that he refused to reprise his Judas role during the 1970s and 1980s; he would not even mention it on his resume. Diagnosed with leukemia in the summer of 2003 while touring in a production of "Jesus Christ Superstar." One of 12 children born to a steelworker and seamstress. At the time of his death, he was in the planning stages of a worldwide tour for "JCS," in which he would star. This tour would reunite several members of the original cast, including Ted Neeley as Jesus; it was slated to open at the Vatican, in the fall of 2004. In 1971, he replaced an ill Ben Vereen as "Judas Iscariot" in the landmark musical "Jesus Christ Superstar." He became synonymous with said role, starring in the movie based on this play, and giving over twelve-hundred performances of the part on stage. Had a twin brother, Charles Edward Anderson, who died of bronchitis at the age of eleven months.

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