Damn. I remember seeing Lynden live a few times - most memorably at the Royal Festival Hall where he had, as ever, the girls going crazy with his gorgeous vocal. It's really sad to hear then that Lynden has lost his battle with cancer. Not only a talented soul singer, but I hear he was a truly nice guy too. Cancer is truly a hateful disease and I hope one day they'll stop Fing about making so much money off meds and actually go get the cure that so surely exists. Come on, you grow babies in wombs and transplant faces on people but you can't stop millions of people a year dying?
Here's a report from Choice:
It is with great sadness that we report that singer, songwriter, arranger, musician and producer Lynden David Hall sadly passed away yesterday after battling a rare form of cancer.
Lynden, aged 31and originally from Wandsworth, South London, won the 1998 MOBO (Music of Black Origin) for "Best Newcomer". In 1999, he was the first U.K. artist ever voted "Best Male Artist" by the readers of Britain's Blues & Soul magazine. His debut album, "Medicine For My Pain", and singles, "Do I Qualify" and "Sexy Cinderella", had an instant appeal to soul fans in the U.K. - and elsewhere in the soul societies of Europe - but it wasn't until it got a remix treatment that this, then 23-year old, South Londoner got his major breakthrough.
In 2005 Lynden released his third studio album "In Between Jobs" on the independent label Random Records.
For the last 2 years Lynden David Hall has been battling a rare form of cancer. He was suffering from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma disease. It is a form of cancer that mainly affects young people in their 20’s and around 1400 people are diagnosed in then UK every year. It is a disease of the Lymphatic system. The Lymphatic system is a complex system of lymph organs (such as tonsils and bone marrow) and lymph nodes connected by a network of lymphatic vessels.
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