Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck Mangione, who achieved worldwide success in 1977 together with his jazz-flavored single “Feels So Good” and later turned a voice actor on the animated TV comedy “King of the Hill,” has died. He was 84.
Mangione died at his dwelling in Rochester, New York, on Tuesday in his sleep, mentioned his legal professional, Peter S. Matorin of Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP. The musician had been retired since 2015.
Perhaps his greatest hit — “Feels So Good” — is a staple on most smooth-jazz radio stations and has been known as one of the crucial acknowledged melodies since “Michelle” by the Beatles. It hit No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the highest of the Billboard grownup modern chart.
“It identified for a lot of people a song with an artist, even though I had a pretty strong base audience that kept us out there touring as often as we wanted to, that song just topped out there and took it to a whole other level,” Mangione instructed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2008.
He adopted that hit with “Give It All You Got,” commissioned for the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, and he carried out it on the closing ceremony.
Mangione, a flugelhorn and trumpet participant and jazz composer, launched greater than 30 albums throughout a profession by which he constructed a large following after recording a number of albums, doing all of the writing.
He received his first Grammy Award in 1977 for his album “Bellavia,” which was named in honor of his mom. Another album, “Friends and Love,” was additionally Grammy-nominated, and he earned a greatest unique rating Golden Globe nomination and a second Grammy for the film “The Children of Sanchez.”
Mangione launched himself to a brand new viewers when he appeared on the primary a number of seasons of “King of the Hill,” showing as a industrial spokesman for Mega Lo Mart, the place “shopping feels so good.”
Mangione, brother of jazz pianist Gap Mangione, with whom he partnered in The Jazz Brothers, began his profession as a bebop jazz musician closely impressed by Dizzy Gillespie.
“He also was one of the first musicians I saw who had a rapport with the audience by just telling the audience what he was going to play and who was in his band,” Mangione instructed the Post-Gazette.
Mangione earned a bachelor’s diploma from the Eastman School of Music — the place he would finally return as director of the college’s jazz ensemble — and left dwelling to play with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
He donated his signature brown felt hat and the rating of his Grammy-winning single “Feels So Good,” in addition to albums, songbooks and different ephemera from his lengthy and illustrious profession to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in 2009.
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