American soul icon Percy Sledge, best known for the 1966 hit "When a Man Loves a Woman," died Tuesday at the age of 74, his longtime agent Steve Green said. Sledge, who had been battling liver cancer for more than a year, passed away at his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Green told AFP. Percy was one of our first," said Green, head of Artists International Management. Born in racially segregated Alabama in 1941, Sledge got his start in show business with a group called the Esquires Combo while holding down a job as a hospital orderly.
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