Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass, Sr. (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010) je akorin R&B/soul ara Amerika. Pendergrass koko gbajumo gege bi akorin asiwaju egbe olorin Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes ninu awon odun 1970 koto bere sini da korin nipari ewadun na. Ni odun 1982 o ni ipalara gidi leyin ijamba oko ni Philadelphia eyi fa iyaro re lati ibadi de sale. O je bibi gege bi Theodore DeReese Pendergrass ni Kingstree, South Carolina ni Amerika, omo Jesse Pendergrass ati Ida Geraldine Epps. Nigba ewe Pendergrass, baba re fi ebi re sile ko to ku ni 1962. Lodun melo leyin eyi ni won ko lo si Philadelphia ibi ti Theodore to lo si Thomas Edison High School for Boys. O je omo egbe akorin Edison Mastersingers. Leyin eyi lo fi ile-eko sile fun ise orin. Gege bi olukowe Robert Ewell Greene se so Pendergrass di alufa nigba ewe re. Ko pe sigba yi lodi onilu ati akorin fun egbe akorin. Pendergrass bere ise orin gege ni onilu fun The Cadillacs ki won o to darapo mo Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.