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Lou Rawls
 
Date of birth: 01 December 1933
Date of death: 06 January 2006
Country Of Origin: America
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Singer

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" A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me. "

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" Actually, I was working in the small lounges and clubs. And one night I was up there trying to sing a song and the people were so busy talking among themselves, I said, there's got to be a way to get their attention. So instead of singing, I told a story of the song with the music playing behind me. "

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" I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life. "

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" I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned. "

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" I was working in little joints where the stage would be behind the bar. So you were standing right over the cash register and the crushed ice machine. "

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" I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time. "

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" It was very edgy, because you didn't know - I mean, hey, here is Frank Sinatra, you know, and you're up there with him. So you've got to be on your P's and Q's. "

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" Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. "

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" So when I cut my first live album, I did the same thing on the at bum and became my little rap thing. My first Grammy nomination. "

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" That was very exciting, because I had been walking Hollywood Boulevard. I never thought that I would one day have a star there. "

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