Blue grass music legend Kenny Rogers, the amicable, silver-unshaven crooner of "The Gambler," "Islands in the Stream" and "Woman," has passed on of normal causes at age 81. Rogers' checked Twitter account declared the news in an announcement late Friday.
"The Rogers family is miserable to report that Kenny Rogers spent away the previous evening at 10:25 p.m. at 81 years old," it read. "Rogers died calmly at home from normal causes under the consideration of hospice and encompassed by his family."
The melodic storyteller piled on an amazing index of hits — at first as an individual from the First Edition beginning in the late 1960s and later as an independent craftsman and two part harmony join forces with Dolly Parton — and earned three Grammy Awards, 19 selections and a large number of honors from blue grass music entertainment expos.
Kenny Rogers, a productive artist who assumed a significant job in extending the crowd for down home music during the 1970s and '80s, kicked the bucket on Friday at his home in Sandy Springs, Ga. He was 81.
Mr. Rogers had been in hospice care and kicked the bucket of characteristic causes, said his marketing expert, Keith Hagan.
Singing in an imposing voice that radiated earnestness and warmth, Mr. Rogers sold well more than 100 million records in a lifelong that crossed seven decades. He had 21 No. 1 nation hits, including two — "Woman," composed and created by Lionel Richie, and "Islands in the Stream," formed by the Bee Gees and performed with Dolly Parton — that came to No. 1 on the pop graph also.
When he resigned from performing for wellbeing reasons in 2018, Mr. Rogers had set in excess of 50 singles in the nation Top 40, of which 20 likewise showed up in the pop Top 40. Some time before the power of Garth Brooks and Shania Twain during the 1990s, he was among the primary blue grass craftsmen to sell out fields.
Mr. Rogers' ubiquity stemmed halfway from his cheerful persona and rough great looks, yet in addition from his capacity to possess his material, which, he frequently stated, was of two fundamental sorts: love tunes like "You Decorated My Life" and account melodies like "The Gambler" and "Lucille."