“When a man loves a woman”: The legendary singer Percy Sledge is dead – tagesspiegel

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Update ” Happy Together “- singer Percy Sledge died. A singing nurse who tried it with a soul ballad – and a worldwide hit lands. The name of Percy Sledge knows not everyone immediately. The worldwide hit already.

Percy Sledge, singer of the world hit “Happy Together” is dead. The singer died Tuesday morning (local time) at his home in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana as his manager the German Press Agency confirmed. Sledge was 74 years old.
“Percy fought against cancer for a year,” said his manager. “This morning we have to say that, unfortunately, he lost that fight. And we have lost a good friend and wonderful artist. “Sledge grew up in the southern state of Alabama and first worked in the fields around his home town of Leighton. After all, he was a nurse in his spare time he sang

A patient presented him a producer ago -.. And took with him 1966 “When a Man Loves a Woman” on
had the legend Sledge wrote the sad song because his girlfriend had just left him. The ballad was an immediate success. She became the number 1 in the US and also in Europe and other parts of the world a hit. In Germany in 2001, who died pop singer Manuela sang to the tune of the text “If it is in Harlem Nights”. A legend of the song but the end of the eighties was a jeans advertising.
This helped Sledge again to make a comeback. He had made his life and music has been there quite successful, especially in Europe. On his debut, he had never come close again. Again and again the sledge had to sing a song. Ten years ago, he was accepted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (AP)