Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack is one of those artists who existed in the connective tissue of American music for so long that it's almost impossible to overstate his influence. Growing up in Cleveland singing gospel with his brothers, then landing in Sam Cooke's orbit as a teenager — that alone would be a remarkable origin story. But Womack kept going, writing "It's All Over Now" before the Rolling Stones ever touched it, crafting deep soul cuts throughout the '70s, and then — against all odds — staging a genuine late-career comeback by singing with Gorillaz on "Stylo" and The Fall in 2010 and releasing a new album in 2012. His voice had this lived-in, broken-but-unbroken quality that got richer with age. The 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction felt long overdue. He passed in 2014, and the soul world lost something that genuinely cannot be replicated.

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Name (English)

Bobby Womack

Name (Japanese)

ボビー・ウーマック

Reading

ぼびー・うーまっく

Born

March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014

Origin

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / musician / songwriter / guitarist / record producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

Awards & achievements

• 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• Official sitehttps://bobbywomack.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/officialbobbywomack/
• Xhttps://x.com/realbobbywomack
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%20Womack
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q388286

Tags

• Ohio
• singer-songwriter
• musician
• songwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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