Grammy Award winner Chuck Mangione has died at age 84.
The news was confirmed by his family, who stated that the musician passed away in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York.
Mangione was a Rochester native who started playing Jazz when he was a teenager.
He won two Grammys over his 60-year music career.
He composed and performed “Give it All You Got,” which was the theme song for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
Mangione won two Grammys out of 14 nominations – the first in 1977 for best instrumental composition for “Bellavia,” named in honor of his mother. In 1979 he won in the best pop instrumental performance category for “The Children of Sanchez.” The latter, a soundtrack for the movie of the same name, also won a Golden Globe.
More details about his burial have not yet been shared at the time of this news.
