William Harrison Withers Jr. was a well-known American singer-songwriter and musician who had several hits over a career spanning 18 years, including “Ain’t No Sunshine”, “Grandma’s Hands”, “Use Me”, “Lean on Me”, “Lovely Day” and “Just the Two of Us”. Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for six more.
What was Bill Withers’s cause of death?
Bill Withers had a career spanning 18 years and counting and has been active in the music world since 1967. Bill Withers had an early retirement in 1985 which did come as a surprise to his fans mostly for how great and smooth his baritone vocals and “sumptuous” soul arrangements were.
Bill Withers was born on July 4, 1938, in Slab Fork, West Virginia, United States. Withers died from heart complications in a Los Angeles hospital on March 30, 2020, at age 81; his family announced his death four days later. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
He is known to have written some of the most covered songs of the 1970s, including “Lean on Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine”, with Lean on Me entering the Hot 100 chart through multiple versions, including Club Nouveau’s 1987 cover, which made the composition one of nine songs to have led the chart via different acts.
