New York (AP)-Two Bar Grammy Award winning musician Chak Mangian, Who achieved international success in 1977 with his Jazz-Flavored Single “Fills So Good” and later became a voice actor on animated TV comedy “King of the Hill,” Has died He was 84 years old.
Mangion died in Rochester, New York on Tuesday, his lawyer said that his lawyer, Beldock Levin and Peter S. of Hofman LLP. The musicians had retired since 2015.
Perhaps his biggest hit-“feels great”-is a predominant at smooth-smooth radio stations and is said to be one of the most recognized tunes since “Michels” by Beatles. It hit the number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard adult contemporary chart.
Mangion told Pittsburgh Post-Gajat in 2008, “It identifies a song with an artist for many people, even though I had a very strong base audience, who used to get out of as many times we wanted, the song just got out of there and took it to the other level.”
He followed the hit with “Give It It All You Got”, commissioned at the 1980 Winter Olympic Lake Plessid, and he performed at the closing ceremony.
Mangion, a Flagelhorn and Trumpat Player and Jazz composer, released more than 30 albums during a career, in which he built a large -scale after recording several albums, all writing.
He won his first Grammy Award for his album “Belavia” in 1977, named in honor of his mother. Another album, “Friends and Love”, was also Grammy-Nominated, and he earned a second grammy for the best original score Golden Globe enrollment and the film “The Children of Sanchez”.
Mangian introduced himself to a new audience when he appeared in several sessions of the first several sessions of the “King of the Hill”, which appeared as a commercial spokesperson for the mega low mart, where “shopping looks great.”
Jazz Pianoist Gap Mangione’s brother Mangione, with whom he participated in Jazz Brothers, started his career as a knocking jazz musician, inspired by Digi Gillespie.
Mangion told the post-gajat, “He was one of the first musicians in which I saw the audience only a synergy with the audience what he was going to play and who was in his band.”
Mangian earned a bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music – where he would eventually return as the director of the school’s Jazz Enill – and left home to play with Art Black and Jazz Messengers.
He donated his signature brown felt hat and his Grammy-winner Single “Fils So Good,” as well as album, songbook and other almanac to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2009 with his long and luxurious career.
Mark Kennedy, Associated Press
