{"id":21626,"date":"2026-03-26T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21626"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:55:13","slug":"legendary-1960s-singer-passed-away-at-age-86-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21626","title":{"rendered":"Legendary 1960s Singer Passed Away At Age 86 &#038; Cause Of Death Revealed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"73\" data-end=\"267\">Legendary singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka has died at 86. According to his death certificate, he passed from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with kidney failure as a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"269\" data-end=\"375\">Earlier that day, Sedaka was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital after feeling unwell, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"377\" data-end=\"505\">In a statement, his family called him \u201ca true rock and roll legend\u201d and \u201can incredible human being\u201d who will be deeply missed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"750\">Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Sedaka rose to fame with hits like <em data-start=\"568\" data-end=\"615\">\u201cBreaking Up Is Hard to Do,\u201d \u201cCalendar Girl,\u201d<\/em> and <em data-start=\"620\" data-end=\"634\">\u201cOh! Carol.\u201d<\/em> He also built a successful songwriting career and enjoyed a resurgence in the 1970s with support from Elton John.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"752\" data-end=\"969\">Over six decades, he earned Grammy nominations, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 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According to his death certificate, he passed from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with kidney failure as a contributing factor. Earlier that day, Sedaka was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital after feeling unwell, where he later died. In a statement, his family called him \u201ca true rock and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21626\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Legendary 1960s Singer Passed Away At Age 86 &#038; Cause Of Death Revealed!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21628,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626\/revisions\/21628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}