Jerry Lawson, who for four decades was the lead singer of the eclectic cult-favorite a cappella group the Persuasions, has died. He was 75. Lawson died Wednesday at a Phoenix hospice after a long ...

The story began at a pickup basketball game in a Brooklyn park in the early ’60s. Then it turned into an a capella group singing on the street corners of the borough’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.

At an age when most people are slowing down, soul singer Jerry Lawson is releasing his first solo album, Just a Mortal Man. The 71-year-old Lawson was the lead singer of the Persuasions, a ...

Jerry Lawson was the original lead singer of the legendary group The Persuasions. Jerry Lawson was the original lead singer of the legendary a cappella group The Persuasions, first discovered by Frank ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Contemporary audiences might really associate a cappella with the big names working in the music industry today, ...

Jerry Lawson, the leader, singer and arranger for a capella singing group The Persuasions tells us the story behind his group's new CD: The Persuasions Sing the Beatles. We hear some excerpts, ...

In one of the final scenes of “Just A Mortal Man — The Jerry Lawson Story,” the famed a capella singer sits in an Apopka graveyard, looking at the dates of his mother’s birth and death. Lawson points ...

You've gotta watch the charming and priceless video below. Background: according to legend, Frank Zappa first heard The Persuasions over the phone, from the street corner they were singing on in ...