Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 - January 6, 2006) was a Chicago-born American soul music, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game."http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=MGJPD Rawls released more than 70 albums, sold more than 40 million records, appeared as an actor in motion pictures and on television, and voiced-over many cartoons. He had been called "The Funkiest Man Alive".

The late Lou Rawls, was a smooth soul singer capable of fusing gospel , blues and jazz influences through a rich, deep, mellifluous and a incomparable, calm, smooth chocolate voice. Born in 1933, he started his career as a Chicago raised Gospel singer who was originally Sam Cooke ’s high school classmate. Together they were in the Teenage Kings of Harmony, a 50s gospel group, and he actually replaced Cooke in The Highway Q.C’s singing group. After serving in the Army, he joined up with famed