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Lou Rawls

With his deep, purring, baritone voice, Lou Rawls was a romantic R&B crooner who helped pioneer soul music in the 1960s and 1970s, won three Grammy Awards and sold over 40 million records. Growing up in Chicago, Rawls sang in the same church choir as Sam Cooke and Curtis Mayfield and played with several local R&B bands, before serving as a paratrooper in the US Army. He later joined the popular gospel group Pilgrim Travellers but disaster struck on tour when they were involved in a car crash that left Rawls in a coma and wiped away his memory for a while. He took a year to recove...