Art Rupe, label owner who helped launch Little Richard and Sam Cooke, dies at 104

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Art Rupe, label owner who helped launch Little Richard and Sam Cooke, dies at 104
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Rupe founded Specialty Records, whose artists also included John Lee Hooker and Lloyd Price

Music executive Art Rupe, whose Specialty Records was a premier label during the formative years of rock’n’roll and helped launch the careers ofRupe, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, died on Friday at his home in Santa Barbara, California, according to the Arthur N Rupe Foundation. The foundation did not release his cause of death.

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