Obit Rankin

This 2006 photo released by DL Media shows Kenny Rankin in Los Angeles. Rankin, a brilliant pop vocalist and highly regarded musician-songwriter whose stylings ranged from jazz to pop to the world music influences he picked up as a child in New York, has died of complications related to lung cancer, his record company announced Monday June 8, 2009. He was 69. (AP Photo/DL Media , Suzanne Allison)