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Bill Withers, ‘Lean On Me’ and ‘Lovely Day’ Singer, Dies at 81
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billboard.comBill Withers, the former Navy man and commercial aircraft worker who became one of music’s most revered poet laureates, has died.
The Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member died Monday (March 30) in Los Angeles from heart complications.
He was 81 years old."We are devastated by the loss of our beloved, devoted husband and father. A solitary man with a heart driven to connect to the world at large, with his poetry and music, he spoke honestly to people and connected them to each other," Withers' family said in a statement to the Associated Press.Arriving front and center on the music scene at the relatively late age of 33 in 1971, Withers quickly forged an indelible impression.
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