Refresh for updates… The great Bill Withers is being mourned today by celebrities from Hollywood to Washington D.C. to Broadway. “My soul always has & always will be full of your music,” tweeted musician Lenny Kravitz, while Brian Wilson called the “Lean On Me” composer a “songwriter’s songwriter.”
Withers died Monday in Los Angeles from heart complications. He was 81.
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Former presidential candidate Kamala Harris tweeted that Withers’ song “Grandma’s Hands” is one of her favorites “and reminds me of my grandmother and so many other mother-figures in my life.”
Deadline will update this list of reactions throughout the day.
Withers died Monday in Los Angeles from heart complications. He was 81.
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Former presidential candidate Kamala Harris tweeted that Withers’ song “Grandma’s Hands” is one of her favorites “and reminds me of my grandmother and so many other mother-figures in my life.”
Deadline will update this list of reactions throughout the day.
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