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Message: [QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 77447, member: 636"] Carl Carlton passed away at 72 after spending decades as one of the smoothest voices in R&B and soul. His kid broke the news on social media, saying the Detroit singer had been fighting through some rough times before he died. Carlton apparently had a stroke six years back, but nobody has said what actually ended up taking him out. The dude started performing when he was still basically a kid in the 1960s and dropped his first singles before most people hit high school. He blew up nationally with Everlasting Love in the mid-1970s, and then She's a Bad Mama Jama became his signature track in the early 1980s. That song got him a Grammy nomination and ended up getting sampled by a bunch of hip-hop artists later on. Carlton's music stayed relevant across generations, showing up at cookouts and parties for years after he first recorded it. [/QUOTE]