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Soul group Silhouettes’ last member dies at 69

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Rev. John “Bootsie” Wilson, a former lead singer and last surviving member of the soul group The Silhouettes, has died. He was 69.

Wilson died Sept. 21 at his home in Spartanburg, S.C., after batting cancer and a kidney ailment, his wife, Pauline, said.

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