*(Fremont, CA) – Friends, family and fans came from all over the nation to celebrate the life of gospel music legend Edwin Hawkins who died January 15 of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was ...

Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” and as a major force for contemporary inspirational music, died Monday at age 74.Hawkins died at his home in Pleasanton, ...

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, ...

Walter Hawkins died at his home in Ripon over the weekend ... after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Hawkins was a pastor, but was best known as part of "The Edwin Hawkins Singers" ... a gospel ...