R&B singer and songwriter Luther Ingram has died at the age of 69 in St Louis, Missouri. He had suffered from ill health for some time, struggling with kidney failure for the best part of a decade and undergoing a kidney transplant in recent years.
Ingram is best known for his 1973 hit 'If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)', written by Homer Banks, Carl Hampton and Raymond Jackson, but he also co-wrote Staples Singers hit 'Respect Yourself'. His other hits included 'Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)' and 'I'll Be Your Shelter'.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, a sister and five brothers.