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Louisiana - Ever hear the song When a Man Loves a Woman?
Hopefully once. Tuesday (14/4), Percy Sledge - soul singer who popularized the song - died at the age of 74 years.
Steve Green, of Artists International Management Inc., said Sledge died at his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
"He was one of my first artist. She was great and you will not find anyone like him in the entertainment business," said Green.
Sledge liver cancer surgery in January 2014. He was healthy again, and on tour.
Sledge known for When a Man Loves a Woman, which topped the Billboard for two weeks in 1966, and number four in the UK.
During an interview for a documentary Muscle Shoals in 2013, he talked about his first record.
"When I arrived at the studio, I was shaking like a leaf," he said. "I am scared."
In fact, the song that will be sung usual hum in the cotton fields back home in Leighton.
Sledge is not unlike most of the blacks in the US. His parents worked hereditary in the cotton fields. Sledge also experienced it, but not to old.
Coming teens, Sledge out of the fields to be a nurse in a hospital.
Sledge relatively simply known for When a Man Loves a Woman, but the song is timeless and re-recorded many other players.
Oliver Stone once used to decorate the movie Platoon, and played in the movie The Big Chill, and last The Crying - starring Meg Ryan. Levis 1987 ad also use it.
Sledge maintain popularity through the tour to Europe, the US, and South Africa. In 1991, When a Man Loves a Woman filmed with sound Michael Bolton, who made a name Sledge lifted again.
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