Jerry Butler, who found R&B stardom in the late 1950s as the first lead singer of the Impressions before moving on to a solo career and a second life in Chicago politics, died Thursday. He was 85.

R&B legend and former politician Jerry Butler has died, the Chicago Sun Times reported. He was 85. Butler got his start in the music biz singing with “Superfly” vocalist Curtis Mayfield with ...

Jerry "The Iceman" Butler, the legendary R&B singer and long-time Illinois politician, has passed away at the age of 85. According to his assistant and "niece at heart," Marty, Butler died from ...