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Linda married Bobby's brother Cecil Womack, and together they had a successful recording career under the name Womack & Womack. Their first album, Love Wars, released by Elektra Records, was a critical hit. "Baby I'm Scared of You" was a Top 40 R&B single. [9]
The Valentinos (also known as The Womack Brothers) was an American family R&B group from Cleveland, Ohio, best known for launching the careers of brothers Bobby Womack and Cecil Womack. Bobby went on to find greater fame as a solo artist while Cecil became successful as a member of the husband and wife duo of Womack & Womack with Linda Cooke .
Linda Cooke also worked as a songwriter, co-writing Bobby Womack's "Woman's Gotta Have It." [ 6 ] Bobby Womack was her stepfather, having married Sam Cooke's widow, Barbara. Cecil Womack and Mary Wells divorced in 1977, and he and Linda married shortly afterwards, [ 7 ] and had four more children together (three of whom have gone on to form ...
Bobby Womack was JaRae's uncle. He married Cooke's widow months after Cooke's demise, which was controversial at the time. Her grandparents are Cecil and Linda Womack, Sam Cooke's daughter, of ...
This created an interesting family tree because Cecil's brother Bobby Womack had married Sam Cooke's widow and Linda's mother Barbara Campbell in 1965. [13] Cecil and Linda had seven children together, and had homes in Africa and Thailand. After 1994, Womack was known professionally and personally by the name Zekkariyas. [14]
By CHRIS TALBOTT Bobby Womack, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, has died. He was 70. Womack's publicist Sonya ...
Robert Dwayne Womack (/ ˈ w oʊ m æ k /; March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career spanned more than 60 years and multiple styles, including R&B, blues, doo-wop, gospel, funk, and soul.
JaRae Womack is the granddaughter of Cecil Womack, a member of the Sam Cooke-championed Valentinos and the co-writer of Teddy Pendergrass’s “Love T.K.O.,” and the niece of late, great Rock ...