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Publicity photo of David Clayton-Thomas (Credit: Marie Byers)<\/span> <\/p> <\/div><\/div> <\/div>

NEW YORK<\/strong> – <\/span>David Clayton-Thomas, the\u00a0Grammy Award-winning Canadian singer and songwriter of the brass-driven group Blood, Sweat & Tears has died. He was 84 years old.<\/p>

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David Clayton-Thomas dies at 84<\/h2>

What they’re saying:<\/p>

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His publicist confirmed the news in a statement to FOX Local, stating that he died peacefully on\u00a0Wednesday at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.<\/p>

“One of the most recognizable voices of his generation, Clayton-Thomas sang the hell out of every song he touched, soaring and sunny one moment, a deep and somber shade of blue the next,” the statement said. “Over a career that carried him from the streets of Toronto to the stage at Woodstock and beyond, he sold more than 40 million records and helped shape the very sound of jazz-rock.”\u00a0<\/p>

No cause of death was cited.<\/p>

David Clayton-Thomas\u2019 legacy<\/h2>

The backstory:<\/p>

Clayton-Thomas was born David Henry Thomsett in Surrey, England, on September 13, 1941. After the war, the family settled in Willowdale, a suburb of Toronto.\u00a0<\/p>

Clayton-Thomas was a onetime street fighter and petty thief who briefly became a rock superstar and the front man of the nine-member group Blood, Sweat & Tears that sold millions of records.<\/p>

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The band’s 1968 self-titled album, his first with the group Blood, Sweat & Tears, sold ten million copies worldwide, topped the Billboard chart for seven weeks, and remained on the chart for an astonishing 109 weeks.\u00a0<\/p>

The album also won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, famously beating the Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road,’ and spun off three signature hits that each reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100: “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” “And When I Die,” and Clayton-Thomas’s own composition, “Spinning Wheel.” His rendition of Billie Holiday’s “God Bless the Child” also became a signature of his own.<\/p>

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