Percy Sledge, the American soul singer who has died aged 74, rose to fame with the 1966 hit When a Man Loves a Woman. The song, a searing emotional rollercoaster, shot to the top of the pop and R&B ...

Percy Sledge, who had a worldwide hit with When a Man Loves a Woman, has died today aged 73. Sledge died at his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He recorded When a Man Loves a Woman in 1966 at Norala ...

In 1979 Percy Sledge recorded a collection of country music covers in Nashville and released it under the on-the-nose title Percy Sledge Sings Country. Although eternally tied to his monumental 1966 ...

Joni, Kim, Debbie and Kathy Sledge were taught how to sing by their grandmother Viola Williams, a former lyric soprano opera singer and protégée of civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune, the sisters ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Founded in the early 1970s by Debbie, Joni, Kathy and Kim Sledge, Sister Sledge has taken on new life in the group Sister Sledge featuring Sledgendary, a group consisting of ...

NEW ORLEANS — Percy Sledge, who soared from part-time singer and hospital orderly to lasting fame with his aching, forlorn performance on the classic When a Man Loves a Woman, died Tuesday in ...

Percy Sledge, the voice behind the legendary soul track "When A Man Loves a Woman," has died, his representatives at Artists International Management confirmed Tuesday. The coroner in East Baton Rouge ...