Eric Mercury, Canada’s ‘Electric Black Man,’ voice of ‘Be Like Mike,’ dies at 77

He joined local band the Pharaohs before stepping to the front of the stage in the Soul Searchers, an act where he shared top billing with fellow lead singer Dianne Brooks.

By the late 1960s, he had moved to New York to pursue a solo career and released an energetic debut album “Electric Black Man.” Three more solo records followed in the 1970s. Mercury would later join Stevie Wonder to co-write a song for Roberta Flack, appear in the 1978 drama “American Hot Wax” and lend his singing voice to the famous “Be Like Mike” Gatorade advertising campaign in the early 1990s.

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