They are also the granddaughters of both Sam Cooke, and his — and Bobby Womack’s — ex-wife, Barbara Cooke. And their Mother’s ex-boyfriend is their uncle, Bobby Womack,” ILOSM writes.

Shortly after Cooke’s death, Womack offered counsel and comfort to Cooke’s widow Barbara. But three months after Cooke’s death and just as Womack turned 21 years old, he went a step further ...

Two generations before ‘Love and Hip-Hop,’ Bobby Womack’s life could have been a reality television show. The now legendary story of Womack’s marriage to his mentor Sam Cooke’s widow ...

Womack was also Cooke's backing guitarist. In March 1965, just three months after Sam Cooke's death, Womack found himself in a scandal after marrying Cooke's widow, Barbara Campbell. In the late ...

Womack was Cooke's protégé, 13 years his junior. In early 1964, Cooke first played him a song he'd just recorded at RCA called "A Change Is Gonna Come." "It sounds like death," Womack told him.

Bobby Womack After Sam Cooke discovered him, Bobby paid him back by sleeping with his wife. Then Bobby Womack married Barbara Cooke three months after Sam was brutally murdered in East LA.

Womack scandalously married Cooke's widow Barbara three months after the singer's death." ... 'My very first thought was — I wish I could call Sam Cooke and share this moment with him,' Womack said.

*Meet the Womack Sisters… the offspring of Linda Cooke-Womack (Sam Cooke’s daughter) and Cecil Womack (Bobby Womack’s brother). Late last year, Cooke’s teenage sweetheart Barbara Campbell ...

Bobby Womack, who passed away last week at the age of 70, didn’t have the golden voice of his mentor, Sam Cooke. He didn’t drip pathos like Otis Redding or put on a show like James Brown.

The now legendary story of Womack’s marriage to his mentor Sam Cooke’s widow, Barbara, months after Cooke’s shooting death, is just the entry point to a life that was as tragic as it was ...

Two generations before Love & Hip Hop, Bobby Womack’s life could have been a reality television show. The now legendary story of Womack’s marriage to his mentor Sam Cooke’s widow, Barbara ...