Darryl Pandy (December 24, 1962 – June 10, 2011[1]) was an American gospel and house music singer from Chicago.
Coming from a Broadway and opera background,[2] Pandy was a lead vocalist in the choir of Chicago's Church of Universal Awareness.
[1] In an article on the early Chicago house music scene from 1986, Barry Walters from SPIN magazine wrote about Pandy's performance of "Love Can't Turn Around": "Darryl Pandy is an enormous man, a Refrigerator Perry gone disco diva.
On record, notably ‘Love Can't Turn Around’, Pandy resembles a possessed cross between his idols Yma Sumac and Minnie Riperton, with a dark trace of Loleatta Holloway.
He begins ‘Love Can't Turn Around’ with all the hypermasculinity of an ill-fated Wagnerian baritone, to come back in the third verse as Screamin' Jay Hawkins.