Iconic composer and producer Burt Bacharach has died on the age of 94.
In line with publicist Tina Brausam, Bacharach handed away of pure causes at his dwelling in Los Angeles on Wednesday. No additional particulars got.
Born in Missouri and raised in New York Metropolis, the Raindrops Maintain Fallin’ on My Head hitmaker pursued a profession within the music business after serving within the U.S. Military within the early Nineteen Fifties. He was quickly tapped because the music director for Marlene Dietrich.
After gaining recognition as a conductor and arranger, Bacharach went on to craft lots of of pop songs, usually in collaboration with lyricist Hal David, for stars together with Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones, and the Carpenters.
Nevertheless, he’s maybe greatest recognized for the enduring tracks he created for Dionne Warwick, comparable to Stroll on By, Alfie, I Say a Little Prayer, and I will By no means Fall in Love Once more.
Over the course of his profession, Bacharach received six Grammy Awards and three Academy Awards.
Alongside David, he additionally obtained the U.S. Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Well-liked Track in 2012.
Bacharach was married 4 occasions. He had a union with lyricist Carole Bayer Sager from 1982 till 1991, and was wed to Jane Hansen from 1993 till his dying.
