Soul singer Lynden David Hall has died after a two year battle with cancer. The London born singer, who rose to fame in the late nineties, winning the Best Newcomer prize at the Mobo's in 1998, had been suffering from the rare cancer Hodgkin's Lymphoma. He died on Tuesday.
Trevor Nelson, who signed Hall to Cooltempo Records back in 1996, told reporters yesterday: "It's the loss of a great talent unfulfilled. At the time, in my capacity as an A&R man, he was one of the biggest talents of his time, and ahead of his time in many ways. He was a very unassuming guy, very quiet and introverted, not your typical wannabe pop star. It's a sad day for British black music, but knowing Lynden as I do, I hope the attention that this brings him will make people go and re-visit his music."
Hall's third studio album 'In Between Jobs' was released via Random Records last year.