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Linda Womack (née Cooke) is the eldest child of Barbara Campbell and Sam Cooke, born on April 25, 1953. Her parents married in 1958. In December 1964, when she was 11 years old, her father was killed. Soon after, her mother married Cooke's protégé Bobby Womack on March 5, 1965. [2]
Sam Cooke was born Samuel Cook in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1931 (he added the "e" to his last name in 1957 to signify a new start to his life). [11] [12] He was the fifth of eight children of Rev. Charles Cook, a Baptist minister in the Church of Christ (Holiness), and the former Annie Mae Carroll.
[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 "The Womack Sisters" vocal trio as of 2022).
Peter Guralnick's biography "Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke," recounts that on October 8, 1963, Cooke attempted to reserve rooms at Shreveport's Holiday Inn North for himself and his wife ...
The late Sam Cooke would be 90 years old today. The movie imagines the personal sparks, bonds, and struggles of four key Black American figures on a night in 1964 when Cooke, sports hero Muhammed ...
PLAYBACK: The soulful Sixties crooner was 33 when he was shot by the manager of a $3-a-night motel in Los Angeles. The lingering conspiracies surrounding his death, writes Mark Beaumont, threaten ...
But due to the Cooke scandal, radio deejays refused to play his records and onstage, [11] he was often referred to as "the kid that married Sam Cooke's wife". Womack settled on session work for the time being as a rhythm guitarist , beginning in 1966, while the rest of the Valentinos, who had initially disbanded following Cooke's death, were ...
Cooke was shot to death by a hotel manager in Los Angeles in 1964. He was only 33. The shooting was ruled self-defense, but Cooke's friends, Muhammed Ali and Etta James, said when they saw his ...