Chuck Mangione, a two-time Grammy award-winning jazz musician who scored a top five hit with his instrumental, “Feels So Good” (1977), has died. He was 84.
Mangione “died peacefully” in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York, on Tuesday, as stated by his attorney, Peter S. Matorin of Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP. The musician’s family also confirmed the news in a brief statement given to the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle. There was no cause of death given.
Charles Frank Mangione was born in Rochester, New York, on Nov. 29, 1940. At the age of 8, he began taking music lessons. While playing the piano, he then decided to switch to the trumpet after seeing Kirk Douglas’ 1950 film, “Young Man With a Horn.” Chuck played in a quintet called the Jazz Brothers in high school with his brother Gaspare. He would then attend Rochester’s Eastman School of Music in 1958, where he began studying the flugelhorn. Mangione would return to Eastman to teach in the late 1960s.
The 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal featured Mangione’s composition, “Chase the Clouds Away.” He would also compose the theme song for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, “Give it All You Got. ”The musician won a Grammy Award in 1977 for Best Instrumental Composition for “Bellavia,” the title of which is his mother’s middle name. He would win a second Grammy in 1979 for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for “Children of Sanchez.”
Mangione’s biggest single, “Feels So Good, reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. The song has an endearing legacy, being used in television shows like The Big Bang Theory and films such as 2016’s Doctor Strange. The artist would also nab a voice role in the animated series, “King of the Hill” as a celebrity pitchman for the fictional company, Mega Lo Mart.
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