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Lou Rawls Official WebsiteLou’s voice is as distinctive and instantly recognizable as any in music. It all began on December 1, 1933, in Chicago with the birth of a boy, who would become the legendary Lou Rawls. From Lou’s early days in gospel, his collaborations with Sam Cooke, “The Dick Clark Show” at the Hollywood Bowl in 1959, the opening for The Beatles in 1966 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, his monologues in the 1970s that presaged rap music to becoming a “crossover” artist before the term was invented, there has been one constant in Lou Rawls’ career––a voice that one critic proclaimed was “sweet as sugar, soft as velvet, strong as steel, smooth as butter.
Lou Rawls' 1989 At Last album reached #1 on the jazz chart and brought a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal. This made Rawls one of the rare artists to earn Grammy nods in Pop, Jazz and R&B, not mention Children's.
Lou Rawls is heard singing background on a number of Sam Cooke '60s classics, including 1962's Bring It On Home To Me.
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Lou Rawls' 1989 At Last album reached #1 on the jazz chart and brought a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal. This made Rawls one of the rare artists to earn Grammy nods in Pop, Jazz and R&B, not mention Children's.
Lou Rawls is heard singing background on a number of Sam Cooke '60s classics, including 1962's Bring It On Home To Me.
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