With his deep, purring, baritone voice, Lou Rawls was a romantic R&B crooner who
helped pioneer soul music in the 1960s and 1970s, won three Grammy Awards and
sold over 40 million records. Growing up in Chicago, Rawls sang in the same
church choir as Sam Cooke and Curtis Mayfield and played with several local R&B
bands, before serving as a paratrooper in the US Army. He later joined the
popular gospel group Pilgrim Travellers but disaster struck on tour when they
were involved in a car crash that left Rawls in a coma and wiped away his memory
for a while. He took a year to recove...