Lloyd Price, R&B legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, dies at 88
Lloyd Price rose to the top of the music charts with 1950s hits “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and “Stagger Lee.”
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Presenter Lloyd Price appears backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Monday, March 14, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo) Author: Dominic Massa / WWL-TV Updated: 1:52 PM EDT May 8, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Lloyd Price, the singer, Kenner native and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who rose to the top of the music charts with 1950s hits “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and “Stagger Lee,” has died. He was 88.
Lloyd Price: Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Kenner native, dies at 88 Dominic Massa / WWL-TV
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Lloyd Price, the singer, Kenner native and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who rose to the top of the music charts with 1950s hits “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and “Stagger Lee,” has died. He was 88.
Price’s manager Tom Tripani confirmed to Rolling Stone that Price died Monday, May 3. No cause of death was provided.
In 1952, Price, then 19, was working out a new song on the piano at his mother s Kenner restaurant when he caught the eye, and ear, of legendary local bandleader and talent scout Dave Bartholomew, who was working with Specialty Records producer Art Rupe.
Rolling Stone Menu Lloyd Price, R&B’s ‘Mr. Personality’ Who Sang ‘Lawdy Miss Clawdy,’ Dead at 88
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Lloyd Price, the pioneering R&B singer behind Fifties hits like “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Stagger Lee” and “Personality,” has died at the age of 88.
Price’s manager Tom Tripani confirmed to
Rolling Stone that Price died Monday, May 3rd; no cause of death was provided.
Friend Rickey Poppell added on Facebook (via
Variety), “Those of us close to Lloyd have been keeping his declining health issues to our selves for the past five years, while Tom kept me up to date along the way. Lloyd was one of the sweetest, caring and kindest man I’ve ever known, I’ll miss him. My prayers go out to his lovely wife, Jackie.”