Luther Ingram, the R&B and soul singer-songwriter best known for his hit If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don’t Want to Be Right) has died. He was 69. Ingram died on March 19 at a Belleville, Illinois, hospital after suffering for years from diabetes, kidney disease and partial blindness, his wife, Jacqui Ingram, said.

Blues guitarist Henry Townsend, who ran away from his family as a boy and stayed in St Louis for a prolific career spanning eight decades, has died at age 96. Townsend died on September 24 2006 of a pulmonary embolism in Grafton, Wisconsin, where he was being honoured by a local blues association.