Danny White (July 6, 1931 – January 5, 1996) was an influential R&B singer and bandleader who worked in the New Orleans area.

Joseph Daniel White was born at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, the youngest of seven children. He grew up in the Hollygroveneighborhood and the Seventh Ward. “There was always lots of music around,” he explained. “I sang in church and for plays at school. It was really my teachers who thought I had a good voice and encouraged me.”

White had his professional debut as a twenty-year-old Marine while stationed at Camp Pendleton in California. He recounted his first appearance fronting a band, “We used to go to this club called the Offshore Lounge to listen to music. It was a nice place, we’d see people like Al Hibbler there. Well, they had a house band and one night the vocalist didn’t show. People started asking the band to do requests but they said they couldn’t do them without the singer. I got up and said I could do the requests, and I ended up singing the rest of the night.” After the show the owner approached White with an offer of a full-time job. “I told him I couldn’t (accept) because I was a Marine.” White and the owner reached an agreement in which White sang on weekends for $10 a night.