Lou Rawls December.1.1933 - January.6.2006
Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls was born in Chicago and raised by his grandmother in the Ida B. Wells projects on the city's South Side. He began singing in the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church choir at the age of seven and later sang with local groups through which he met future music stars Sam Cooke, who was nearly three years older than Rawls, and Curtis Mayfield. Read more at www.wikipedia.org