Jerry Lee Lewis Dead at 87 Days After False Report

Lewis began his career in the ’50s and rose to fame as one of the most famous rock n’ roll singers and pianists. The four-time Grammy winner’s most recent album, gospel record Jimmy Lee & Jerry Lee: The Boys From Ferriday, which was released in July 2022, is a collaboration with his cousin Swaggart, a televangelist “who had preached against his music when they were younger.”

According to his obituary, while working on the project, “Lewis, though his voice and body were weakened by his injury and a recent stroke, seemed happy, content.”

In the obituary, Lewis also described his own legacy. Bragg wrote, “If you asked him, in his waning years, what he hoped people would say about him, he had a simple answer: ‘You can tell ’em I played the piano and sang rock n’ roll.'”

(E! and NBC News are part of the NBCUniversal family.)