The blues, jazz and soul star enjoyed a career in music that lasted for five decades. One of his best-known songs is You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine.
During his long career, the singer earned three Grammy Awards and recorded 60 albums. A Chicago native, Rawls began singing in church as a child. In the 1950s, he moved to Los Angeles where be started his career as a gospel singer.
Rawls, who was hospitalized last month, had been undergoing treatment for lung cancer.