Jerry Butler, the soul singer-songwriter and hit maker known as the Iceman, died Thursday at his home in Chicago. He was 85. His assistant confirmed his death to The New York Times, sharing that ...

Jerry Butler, the decorated soul singer who became a senior politician in his adopted home state of Illinois, died at his Chicago home on February 20, the Chicago Sun-Times reports, citing a ...

Jerry Butler Death News: Iconic soul singer Jerry Butler, popularly known as "The Iceman", breathed his last on Thursday. He was 85. According to the initial medical reports, Butler was suffering ...

Feb. 21 (UPI) --Jerry Butler, a politician, soul singer and former member of The Impressions, has died. He was 85. Butler, also known as "Ice Man," died Thursday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the 1960s and after whose rich, intimate baritone graced such hits as “For Your Precious Love,” “Only the Strong Survive” and “Make It Easy On ...

Tributes have been paid to Gwen McCrae, the much-loved and influential US funk and soul singer, who has died aged 81 after a long illness. Affectionately known as the "queen of the rare groove ...

Les McCann, the soul-jazz singer, composer and fellow pianist who discovered Flack while the latter performed in a Washington, D.C. club, once said, “[h]er voice touched, tapped, trapped and ...

Originally broadcast in 2000. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The great soul singer Jerry Butler died last month at the age of 85. We're going to remember him by listening back to our ...

Butler was the original lead singer of the Impressions before embarking ... In 2004, he released a memoir, Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor. Butler served on the Cook County ...

and soul. “My music is inspired thought by thought, and feeling by feeling,” she once wrote. “Not note by note. I tell my own story in each song as honestly as I can in the hope that each ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the 1960s and after whose rich, intimate baritone graced such hits as “For Your Precious Love,” “Only the Strong Survive” and ...

NEW YORK — Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the 1960s and after whose rich, intimate baritone graced such hits as “For Your Precious Love,” “Only the Strong Survive” and “Make It ...