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Cleveland native and legendary soul singer Bobby Womack is dead at 70

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog, Tel: (216) 659-0473  K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland native and legendary soul singer-songwriter and musician  Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack died Friday. He was 70-years-old. His publicist did not provide specifics on his death to reporters, saying only that Womack had, in fact, passed away.  Womack was born on Cleveland's predominantly Black east side and dropped out of high school at 16 when he signed a recording contract with Sam Cooke, also a legendary name in soul and R&B music. A recording artist since the early 1960s, Womack is a 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fa