Gregory Abbott

Gregory Joel Abbott (born April 2, 1954) Abbott's parents were from Venezuela and Antigua. During his early years, Abbott's mother taught him how to play piano and encouraged him to develop vocally. Before his career as a musician, Abbott studied psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and creative writing at Stanford; where he won a Wallace Stegner fellowship. Before becoming a musician, Abbott taught as a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. from 1976 until 1979. Their son, Gregory Joel Abbott, Jr., was born in 1977.

! style="width:40px;"|US R&B

| 1986

| Shake You Down

| rowspan="2"| Columbia Records

| align=center | 22

| align=center | 5

| align=center | 53

| 1988

| I'll Prove It to You

| align=center | 132

| align=center | 17

| align=center | —

| 1996

| One World!

| rowspan="2"| Musik International

| align=center | —

| 2002

| Eyes, Whispers, Rhythm, Sex...

| align=center | —

| 2011

| Drop Your Mask

| Spectra Records

| align=center | —

| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

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! width="40"| US R&B

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! width="40"| UK