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Article: CURTIS MAYFIELD, SOUL SINGER WITH MESSAGE, DIES.(NEWS)(Obituary)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 27, 1999
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Soul singer and songwriter Curtis Mayfield, whose work introduced a social conscience into black music at the height of the civil rights movement and who continued to make music for a decade after an accident left him paralyzed, died yesterday. He was 57.
Mayfield's string of hits included ``Gypsy Woman,'' the gospel-tinged ``People Get Ready,'' the rallying cry ``Keep On Pushing'' and the funk classic ``Superfly.''
Warner Bros. Records spokeswoman Karen Lee announced the death yesterday. A nurse at the North Fulton Regional Hospital in Roswell, Ga., confirmed that Mayfield died there yesterday morning.
The exact cause of his death was not ...