`The Lion Sleeps Tonight' singer dies
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Hank Medress, whose vocals with the doo wop group the Tokens helped propel their irrepressible single "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to the top of the charts and who produced hits with other groups, has died of lung cancer. He was 68.
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Famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who appeared on stage with singers as varied as opera star Dame Joan Sutherland, U2's Bono and Liza Minnelli, died Thursday after suffering from pancreatic cancer.
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CNN.com readers remember Luciano Pavarotti as an opera singer who inspired them to take the stage, a man whose voice gave them goose bumps and the "greatest singer ever." Pavarotti died today, prompting one reader to cry on her way to work.
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MODENA, Italy  - Legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, whose gifted voice and charisma brought opera to the masses, died of cancer on Thursday aged 71.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died, France Info radio said on Sunday, saying his family had informed it of his death.
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Luciano Pavarotti, perhaps the most famous opera singer ever, died on Thursday morning, aged 71.
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Blues singer-guitarist Son Seals, one of the most distinctive voices to emerge in the genre during the 1970s, died Monday in Chicago of complications from diabetes. He was 62.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - U.S. country singer Porter Wagoner, lanky Grand Ole Opry star whose flashy Nudie rhinestone suits dazzled fans when he sang with rising new performer Dolly Parton in the 60s, died on Sunday from lung cancer, said his publicity agent, Darlene Bieber. He was 80.
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British jazz singer and author George  Melly died on Thursday at the age of 80, his wife Diana said in  a statement.
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Director of Bombay Dreams musical dies of lung cancer.
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Macedonian pop star Tose Proeski, a hugely popular singer in the Balkans, dies in a car crash.
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Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s, died Tuesday. He was 93.
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Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti, hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, died in the early hours of Thursday, his manager Terri Robson said.
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EAST QUOGUE, N.Y. - Laura Branigan, a Grammy-nominated pop singer best known for her 1982 platinum hit "Gloria," has died...
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. (antiMUSIC) Singer Laura Branigan died in her sleep Thursday at her East Quogue, New York home. She reportedly suffered a brain aneurysm.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of  U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"  for nearly 30 years -- and the last face millions of Americans  saw before drifting off to sleep -- died on Sunday at age 79.
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Beverly Sills, one of the United States&#39; most acclaimed opera singers, died Monday due to lung cancer, US media reported. She was 78.