[imagel]http://memphismojo.com/images/gerald_levert_t.jpg[/imagel]Gerald Levert, the fiery singer of passionate R&B love songs and the son of O'Jays singer Eddie Levert, died Friday. He was 40.
His label, Atlantic Records, confirmed thatLevert died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio.
[imagel]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42307000/jpg/_42307284_emmett_203_getty.jpg[/imagel]Australian actress Belinda Emmett, who starred as Rebecca Fisher in Home and Away, has died after battling cancer.
The 32-year-old was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998 and left the soap opera while undergoing treatment.
[imagel]http://www.zoranealehurstonfestival.com/newsite102004/images/bennyandrews.jpg[/imagel]Benny Andrews, a painter and teacher whose work drew on memories of his childhood in the segregated South, has died. He was 75.
Andrews died Friday at his home in New York of cancer, his wife, Nene Humphrey, said Sunday.
[imagel]http://a1040.g.akamai.net/f/1040/759/1h/pic.infospace.com/vzn.isp/thumb_6869be1b-0010-4d86-8082-2e7d76bafd32.jpg[/imagel]Mario Merola, whose dramatic renditions of traditional songs from his native Naples made him wildly popular with Neapolitans for decades, has died in a hospital near the city, officials said. He was 72. Hospital officials said Merola died after suffering a series of heart attacks Sunday.
[imagel]http://a1040.g.akamai.net/f/1040/759/1h/pic.infospace.com/vzn.isp/thumb_c9bad0d5-6a32-48e0-8d0c-f21a2c6f8ffc.jpg[/imagel]The father of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger died of pneumonia Saturday, a spokesman for the singer said. He was 93.
Joe Jagger, a former schoolteacher, was admitted to a hospital in Kingston, Surrey, outside London, more than a week ago after falling in his home, the spokesman said on condition of anonymity.
Basil Poledouris, award-winning composer, dies at 61
[imagel]http://www.filmmusik-komponisten.de/images_komp/bilder/Komponisten%20Fotogalerie/thumbs/poledouris_basil.jpg_t400.jpg[/imagel]Basil Poledouris, who composed the Emmy-winning score for the 1989 television miniseries "Lonesome Dove" and the opening fanfare for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, has died.
[imagel]http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/news_thumbnails/williamsonjack_tn.jpg[/imagel]Author Jack Williamson, a grand master of science fiction who wrote dozens of novels and short stories, died Nov. 10 at his home in Portales, N.M., the Albuquerque Tribune reported. He was 98.