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- His family announced the news on Instagram, and his publicist Bill Carpenter confirmed the details to the Washington Post.
- Related Stories Obituaries 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries News 2024 Hollywood & Media Deaths: Photo Gallery & Obituaries Born on November 30, 1948, in Washington, D. C., Smallwood released a couple of albums in the 1970s with a local church choir before hitting big with The Richard Smallwood Singers in 1982.
- The LP hit No.
- 2 on Billboard’s gospel albums chart and would spent more than a year and a half on that tally.
- His 1984 follow-up disc, Pslams, continued what would become a string of six consecutive Top 10 gospel albums with the group through 1992.
