“Watermarked,” an album renowned Presbyterian singer/songwriter david m bailey was working on when he died last fall, has been released posthumously.
Bailey died Oct. 2 of glioblastoma at a hospice near his Charlottesville, Va., home. He was 44 and had fought the disease for 15 years, continuing to write, record and perform.
david m bailey, a singer/songwriter who moved audiences as much with his story of personal courage in the face of terminal cancer as with his music, succumbed to Glioblastoma on Oct. 2 in hospice care near his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 44.
The son of Presbyterian missionaries, Kenneth E. and Ethel Bailey, bailey was raised in Beirut, Lebanon. He spent some of his youth in Germany — where he learned to play the guitar and began writing songs — before returning to the United States, where he graduated from Grove City (Pa.) College.
bailey often joked …