Percy Sledge, singer of “When a Man Loves a Woman,” the 1966 No. 1 hit that became a soul-music classic, was remembered Tuesday as a kind and charismatic man who lit up rooms and concert stages with ...

Two vivid memories of Percy Sledge sprang to mind Monday for producer Saul Davis upon hearing the news that the soul singer had died at 74 after a long bout with cancer. Davis — who co-produced (with ...

Morning Edition's series One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers in the United States are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their catalogs have ...

The original "When a Man Loves a Woman" singer died at the age of 73. — -- Michael Bolton paid tribute today to Famed R&B singer Percy Sledge, who died earlier at the age of 73. Bolton sang ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Who: Percy Sledge, 69. What: Singer, balladeer, radio hitmaker. Type of music: R&B, soul, country-soul. Alabama roots: Born Nov. 25, 1941, in ...

Think how your heart felt when you first heard that misery come pouring out of your hi-fi or transistor radio: This gentle, eternally devoted soul had just been blindsided by his woman, who'd left him ...

Percy Sledge, the R&B legend who memorably sang/cried When A Man Loves a Woman, has died at his home in Baton Rouge, according to multiple reports. He was 74. William "Beau" Clark, coroner for East ...

Percy Sledge, the voice behind the legendary soul track "When A Man Loves a Woman," has died, his representatives at Artists International Management confirmed Tuesday. The coroner in East Baton Rouge ...

The intense, gospel-influenced voice that propelled "When a Man Loves a Woman," one of popular music's landmark ballads, is now silent. Singer Percy Sledge, 74, died around 12 a.m. Tuesday of natural ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Soul singer Percy Sledge, 74, was laid to rest Tuesday. The 2005 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee died one week ago, after battling liver cancer. Friends say it's important ...

During the mid-sixties, Sledge worked as a hospital nurse while touring to get his music career off the ground. By Joe Lynch, Billboard Percy Sledge - H 2015 Percy Sledge, the R&B powerhouse who ...