LOS ANGELES — Jerry Lawson, who for four decades was the lead singer of the eclectic cult-favorite a cappella group the Persuasions, has died. He was 75. Lawson died Wednesday at a Phoenix hospice ...

Jerry Lawson, who for four decades was the lead singer of the eclectic cult-favorite a cappella group the Persuasions, has died in hospice care in Phoenix. He was 75. Lawson died Wednesday after a ...

Jerry Lawson, longtime leader of The Persuasions, died in Phoenix this week. Lawson died in hospice care on July 10 at age 75, according to the Associated Press. His career with the famed a cappella ...

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A capella singing group The Persuasions, group portrait, London, 6th October 1973. Jerry Lawson (centre) (1944 - 2019). (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images) Jerry Lawson, who for four decades was ...

Any Beatles tribute album will be interesting for its song choices, but maybe more so for the Persuasions. By Billboard Staff Any Beatles tribute album will be interesting for its song choices, but ...

The sound of Barenaked Ladies' voices will be front and center next month, when Ladies and Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies and the Persuasions is released. By Gary Graff The sound of Barenaked Ladies‘ ...

“Sweet Joe” Russell, who spent half a century harmonizing with the Persuasions, an influential vocal group widely regarded as the “kings of a cappella,” has died. He was 72. Russell died May 5 in a ...

Jerry Lawson is best known as providing the buttery lead vocal for the flagship doo-wop-cum-gospel-cum-soul-cum-beep-bop a cappella group the Persuasions. But after forty-one years, twenty-one albums, ...

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2017 file photo, singer Jerry Lawson performs the song "Lay Down" at a life celebration and statue unveiling for the late actor Anton Yelchin at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in ...