Doomed Genius | Bobby DeBarge - The Night Everything Collapsed

Bobby DeBarge built the blueprint for his family’s success, then watched it from the outside looking in. This documentary follows his journey from a terror-filled childhood to R&B royalty with Switch and Motown, and then into the spiral of cocaine, bad deals, and street hustle. Learn how one raid, one sentence, and one diagnosis turned a gifted architect of sound into a doomed genius running out of time.

TIMELINE:
00:00 A Heavenly Voice in a Hellish Life
01:25 Abuse, Racism, and a Locked-In Childhood
07:54 Motown Crowns a New Falsetto King
13:46 Fame, Fatigue, and the First Line
20:19 Prison Walls and a Deadly Secret
24:31 From Stay With Me to One More Chance

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