Profile via TMDB · Courtesy of TMDB
Bobby Womack
Sign in to saveAlso known as Robert Dwayne Womack
American singer and songwriter (1944–2014)
Film & TV
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Robert Dwayne Womack (born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on March 4, 1944, died June 27, 2014), was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Working in the soul and R&B genres, he achieved his greatest success in the 1970s and 1980s. Womack wrote and originally recorded The Rolling Stones' first UK No. 1 hit, "It's All Over Now" and New Birth's "I Can Understand It" among other songs. As a singer…
Known for
- Gorillaz Present: The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God — Self (voice)2026
- SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) — Self (archive footage)2025
- Montreux Jazz Festival 2013 - Remember Claude Nobs — Self2019
- Kings of Soul — Self (archive footage)2015
- Gorillaz: Plastic Beach Live at La Musicale — Self2010
- The Making of Plastic Beach — Self2010
- Gorillaz: Live at Roundhouse in London — Self2010
- Classic Soul at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2007
- Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music — Self2005
- Sam Cooke: Legend — Self2003
via TMDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cleveland
- Place of death
- Tarzana
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- rhythm and blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- XL Recordings
- Official website
- bobbywomack.com
- Image
- Bobby Womack - Roskilde Festival 2010 (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- baritone
Show 15 more facts
- birth name
- Robert Dwayne Womack
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of death
- 2014-06-27
- Commons category
- Bobby Womack
- date of birth
- 1944-03-04
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
- name in native language
- Bobby Womack
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- relative
- Linda Womack
- social media followers
- 6345
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- end of work period
- 2012-00-00
- ethnic group
- African Americans
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0