Blues artist 'Weepin' Willie dies at 81
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"Weepin'" Willie Robinson, a blues singer who performed with Steven Tyler and Bonnie Raitt but also spent time homeless, has died at age 81.
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Rap artist ODB, known as &quot;Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard&quot; to his fans and Russell T. Jones to his friends and family, collapsed and died Saturday at a recording studio in Manhattan.
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The debonair jazz pianist and composer of such legendary Broadway tunes as "Witchcraft," "Big Spender," and "The Best is Yet to Come," died on Thursday night.
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Ossie Davis, whose rich baritone and elegant, unshakable bearing made him a giant of the stage, screen and the civil rights movement &#151; often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee &#151; has died. He was 87.
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The Grand Ole Opry lost one of its most unique members with the Sept. 19 passing of Skeeter Davis.
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Friends and family gathered at a church in Harlem, New York, to remember rapper ODB (Ol&#39;Dirty Bastard) on Wednesday. The 35-year-old collapsed and died at a Manhattan recording studio on Sunday after complaining of chest pains.
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The Feb. 6 death of legendary singer/songwriter and artist manager Merle Kilgore draws the curtain on one of Music Row's most popular figures.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Scott Simon takes a musical moment to note the death of Louisiana bluesman Raful Neal. Too easy and a bluesman Rachel Neil died this week at the age of sixty-eight the singer and harmonica
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Songwriter Billy Davis, who wrote a number of R&B hits and was part of the creative team behind a landmark campaign for Coca-Cola, has died.
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Chicago artist Ed Paschke, who earned  international acclaim for his startling, vibrantly colored  canvases of images and icons from popular culture, has died at  the age of 65.
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The singer and harmonica player Raful Neal, the patriarch of a family of blues musicians, died here on Wednesday. He was 68. He died after a long battle with cancer, his family said.
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The late rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike Turner died of a cocaine overdose, the San Diego County medical examiner said on Wednesday.
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The death is confirmed of the leading Welsh artist, Sir Kyffin Williams, at the age of 88.
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Hard-living swamp pop performer Joe Barry, whose 1960 version of "I'm a Fool to Care" put him in the national spotlight, died Aug. 31. He was 65.
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US soul legend Ike Turner, who died in December, was killed by a cocaine overdose, coroners say.
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Singer Barbara McNair, who became a film and television star in an era when such opportunities were opening up for black women, has died, her sister said. She was 72.
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Russell Jones, a rap musician better known as ODB and a co-founder of the group Wu-Tang Clan, collapsed and died in a recording studio yesterday at age 35, the Associated Press reported.