RIP Lou Rawls.
Grammy-Winning Singer Lou Rawls Dies
Grammy-Winning Singer Lou Rawls Dies of Cancer in Los Angeles at 72
Singer Lou Rawls rehearses with the Boston Pops orchestra at Symphony Hall in Boston, on May 11, 2005. Rawls died of cancer Friday morning, Jan. 6, 2006, in a Los Angeles hospital (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
The Associated PressThe Associated Press
LOS ANGELES Jan 6, 2006 — Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced singer who started as a church choir boy and went on to sell more than 40 million albums and win three Grammy Awards in a career that spanned nearly five decades and a range of genres, has died, his publicist said. He was 72.
Rawls died early Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was hospitalized last month for treatment of lung and brain cancer, his publicist Paul Shefrin said. His wife Nina was at his bedside when he died, Shefrin said.
The family and Shefrin said Rawls was 72, although other records indicate he was 70. |
