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Eight-time Grammy-nominated gospel singer Richard Smallwood has died at 77. His representative announced that Smallwood ...

Gospel singer Richard Smallwood died December 20 at 77. He had a dozen Top 10 albums and four No. 1s on the Billboard gospel ...

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