Lewis started his profession within the ’50s and rose to fame as one of the crucial well-known rock n’ roll singers and pianists. The four-time Grammy winner’s most up-to-date album, gospel report Jimmy Lee & Jerry Lee: The Boys From Ferriday, which was launched in July 2022, is a collaboration along with his cousin Swaggart, a televangelist “who had preached towards his music once they had been youthful.”
Based on his obituary, whereas engaged on the mission, “Lewis, although his voice and physique had been weakened by his damage and a current stroke, appeared blissful, content material.”
Within the obituary, Lewis additionally described his personal legacy. Bragg wrote, “If you requested him, in his waning years, what he hoped folks would say about him, he had a easy reply: ‘You possibly can inform ’em I performed the piano and sang rock n’ roll.'”
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