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Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was an United States|American soul music, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game".<ref>[http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=MGJPD Kennedy Center: Find a Performance<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Rawls released more than 70 albums{{Fact|date=October 2008, sold more than 40 million records{{Fact|date=October 2008, appeared as an actor in motion pictures and on television, and voiced-over many cartoons. He had been called "The Funkiest Man Alive".
Career
Lou Rawls, who learned of gospel music through his grandmother in Chicago, became a successful singer, primarily from the 1950s through the 1980s.<ref name=Chatham>''Rawls succumbs to cancer'', Chatham Daily News (ON). News, Saturday, January 7, 2006, p. 7. accessed on October 6, 2006.</ref> He was a high school classmate of music giant Sam Cooke, and they sang together in the Teenage Kings of Harmony, a '50s gospel group.
After graduating from Chicago's Dunbar Vocational Career Academy, Rawls enlisted in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper in the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division|82nd Airborne Division. He left the "All-Americans" three years... read all
