NEW YORK (AP) — Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck Mangione, who achieved worldwide success in 1977 along with his jazz-flavored single “Feels So Good” and later grew to become a voice actor on the animated TV comedy “King of the Hill,” has died. He was 84.
Mangione died at his house in Rochester, New York, on Tuesday in his sleep, mentioned his lawyer, Peter S. Matorin of Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP. The musician had been retired since 2015.
Maybe his largest hit — “Feels So Good” — is a staple on most smooth-jazz radio stations and has been referred to as one of the vital acknowledged melodies since “Michelle” by the Beatles. It hit No. 4 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and the highest of the Billboard grownup up to date 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 advised the Pittsburgh Publish-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.
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Mangione, a flugelhorn and trumpet participant and jazz composer, launched greater than 30 albums throughout a profession wherein he constructed a large following after recording a number of albums, doing all of the writing.
He gained his first Grammy Award in 1977 for his album “Bellavia,” which was named in honor of his mom. One other album, “Friends and Love,” was additionally Grammy-nominated, and he earned a finest authentic 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 Hole 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 advised the Publish-Gazette.
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Mangione earned a bachelor’s diploma from the Eastman College of Music — the place he would finally return as director of the varsity’s jazz ensemble — and left house to play with Artwork 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 Nationwide Museum of American Historical past in 2009.
