Lou Rawls turns 70 on Dec. 1, but the world-renowned singer with that most distinctive voice isn”t thinking about retirement. In a recent telephone interview before he boarded a jet for Freeport, ...

Grammy-winning singer Lou Rawls, whose smooth baritone voice interpreted gospel, soul, jazz, blues and pop and whose talent raised millions for charity, died Friday in Los Angeles from cancer, ...

Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced singer who sung his first notes in public as a choirboy and went on to sell more than 40 million albums in a career that spanned nearly five decades and a range of genres, ...

Lou Rawls, the Grammy Award-winning singer whose velvety baritone was one of the most recognizable voices in pop music on hits such as “Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing,” “Lady Love” and “You’ll Never Find ...

Commentator Betty Baye remembers the music of Lou Rawls, the smooth-voiced R&B and soul music icon who will be laid to rest Friday. Rawls died January 8 of lung cancer at age 72. The Rev. Jesse ...

Jan. 6, 2006 — -- "Sweet as sugar," was how one critic described Lou Rawls' baritone voice -- "soft as velvet, strong as steel, smooth as butter." Music was in his blood. Louis Allen Rawls was ...

Last Friday, singer Lou Rawls died of cancer in Los Angeles. Rawls, long-known for his silky baritone, organized the yearly United Negro College Fund telethon nearly three decades ago. The televised ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Los Angeles – Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced singer who started as a church choir boy and went on to record the classic tune “You’ll Never Find Another Love ...

2006-01-07 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Lou Rawls, the Grammy Award-winning singer whose velvety baritone was one of the most recognizable voices in pop music on hits such as "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing," ...

Micky Ferreira was a friend of Lou Rawls for 35 years. Joan Browne knew him only as a fan, but both turned out Thursday to pay respects to the man they agreed had one of the finest voices this side of ...

Lou Rawls always considered himself blessed to have grown up on the South Side of Chicago, where gospel choirs and jazz singers and blues belters inspired him to sing. The music he learned in church ...

LOU RAWL'S posthumous reputation will probably suffer when compared with that of Sam Cooke, his teenage friend and early singing partner (they survived a 1958 car accident together), or Marvin Gaye, ...