Velvet-Voiced Crooner Lou Rawls Dies at 72 [4min]
Karen Grigsby Bates offers an appreciation of late R&B singer and philanthropist Lou Rawls. The singer sold more than 40 million albums and earned three Grammys in his long career, and founded a popular telethon to raise money for the United Negro College Fund. He fought a losing battle with brain and lung cancer.
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