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Ronnie Hawkins, the big, boisterous Southern rockabilly singer who called Canada home and helped mentor the first band ( The Band ) from this country inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died.
His wife, Wanda, confirmed to The Canadian Press that Hawkins died Sunday morning after a long illness at age 87. "He went peacefully and he looked as handsome as ever," she said in a phone interview with CP.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainmen...uary-1.6470162