R&B singer died Wednesday at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Philadelphia. He was 59 when he died.
We have lost yet another powerful person of Soul and R&B Music.
Pendergrass, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident in 1982, underwent surgery for colon cancer 8 months ago and had a “difficult recovery,” according to his son, Teddy Jr.

Theodore “Teddy” DeReese Pendergrass aka TEDDY PENDERGRASS has passed away at 9:59pm tonight on January 13 age 59 at Bryn Mawr Hospital, located in Newtown Square, PA.