Edwin Hawkins, 'Oh Happy Day' singer, dead at 74 Edwin Hawkins died on Jan. 15, 2018, of pancreatic cancer, according to his publicist. He was the musical mind behind the Edwin Hawkins Singers top 10 ...

Edwin Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning singer who merged gospel and secular sounds in a career highlighted by the accidental crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” in 1969, died on Monday in Pleasanton, ...

Hawkins, part of a musical family, was studying interior design at Laney College in Oakland, California, in the late 1960s and working with a group he and his friend Betty Watson had put together, the ...