{"id":2034,"date":"2022-09-15T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/2022\/09\/15\/rb-singer-jesse-powell-dies-at-51\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T16:45:22","slug":"rb-singer-jesse-powell-dies-at-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/2022\/09\/15\/rb-singer-jesse-powell-dies-at-51\/","title":{"rendered":"R&amp;B singer Jesse Powell dies at 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crooner behind the 1996 ballad &#8220;You&#8221; passed away peacefully Tuesday in his Los Angeles home, his family said in a statement.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2022-09\/220914-jesse-powell-mjf-1125-c710b4.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse Powell\"\/><figcaption>Jesse Powell performs at Chess Records Studios in Chicago in July 1998.Raymond Boyd \/ Getty Images <\/figcaption><\/figure><p>R&amp;B singer Jesse Powell, best known for the 1996 hit \u201cYou,\u201d died Tuesday at age 51, his family said.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Powell died \u201cpeacefully\u201d in his Los Angeles home, according to his sisters, the recording artists Trina and Tamara Powell.&nbsp;<\/p><p>\u201cIt is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our beloved son, brother and uncle Jesse Powell,\u201d Tamara Powell said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CieOTtAD7G1\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=eab77ffb-b37d-48bb-affd-83ea0fe17bf6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement from the family<\/a>&nbsp;on Instagram.&nbsp;<\/p><p>\u201cThe family asks for privacy at this time as we mourn this tremendous loss and celebrate his everlasting legacy,\u201d it said.&nbsp;<\/p><p>The family remembered Powell as a man who loved music and was devoted to his fans.&nbsp;<\/p><p>\u201cWe want you all to know that you meant the world to him,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p><p>A cause of death was not shared.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crooner behind the 1996 ballad &#8220;You&#8221; passed away peacefully Tuesday in his Los Angeles home, his family said in a statement. R&amp;B singer Jesse Powell, best known for the 1996 hit \u201cYou,\u201d died Tuesday at age 51, his family said.&nbsp; Powell died \u201cpeacefully\u201d in his Los Angeles home, according to his sisters, the recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}