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Charles Bradley performing in 2012 at the "All Tomorrow's People" festival in Manhattan.
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Charles Bradley
Died on September 24, 2017 at age 68
Mr. Bradley was a journeyman soul singer whose beleaguered rasp and passionate live performances turned him from an itinerant worker and small-time James Brown impersonator into a late-in-life headliner.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.