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Two-time Grammy awardee jazz genius Chuck Mangione dies at 84

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7/26/25, 7:39 AM
Two-time Grammy awardee jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who gave the 1970’s hit “Feels So Good”, has died at his home in Rochester, New York. He was 84.
The American flugelhorn player and prolific composer reportedly died in his sleep, apparently due to heart failure.
Mangione six decade musical career earned him huge album sales and film; television scoring contracts and licensing music for commercial and other major events.
He hit it big in 1977 when he recorded “Feels So Good” which reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
“Chuck’s love affair with music has been characterized by his boundless energy, unabashed enthusiasm and pure joy that radiated from the stage,” his family said in a statement.
A native of Rochester, Mangione was born in 1940. At an early stage in his life he already showed virtuosity in flugelhorn and trumpet.
His father introduced him to jazz during the 1950’s, thus influencing his choice of music.
He was just 8 when he started taking music lessons.
Aside from “Feels So Good”, Mangione earned accolade for his composition “Chase the Clouds Away” that was featured at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
His “Give It All You Got” was chose the theme music for the 1980 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, New York.
In 1977, he won Grammy’s on for his best instrumental composition for his “Bellavia”, which was named in honor of his mother.
Another Grammy, for the best pope instrumental performance category came in 1979 for “The Children of Sanchez”, a soundtrack for the movie with the same title.
