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New York (AP)-twice a musician winner of the Grammy Chuck Mangione award, who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz flavor single “Feele So Good” and then became a voice actor in the animated television comedy “King of the Hill”, is dead. He was 84 years old.

Mangione died at his home in Rochester, New York, on Tuesday while sleeping, said his lawyer, Peter S. Matorin de Beldock Levine & Hoffman Llp. The musician had been retired since 2015.

Perhaps its greatest success, “feels so good,” is a basic element in most soft jazz radio stations and has been called one of the most recognized melodies since “Michelle” of the Beatles. He hit the number 4 in the Billboard Hot 100 and the upper part of the contemporary table for Billboard adults.

“He identified many people a song with an artist, although he had a fairly strong base audience that kept us there as often as we wanted, that song has just overcome and led it to a completely different level,” Mangione told Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2008.

He followed that blow with “Give It All You Got”, in charge for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Planid, and did it at the closing ceremony.

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Mangione, a flugelhorn and trumpeter and jazz composer, launched more than 30 albums during a race in which he built considerable follow -up after recording several albums, doing all the brief.

He won his first Grammy prize in 1977 for his album “Bellavia”, which was appointed in honor of his mother. Another album, “Friends and Love”, was also nominated for Grammy, and obtained a better gold balloon nomination of the best score and a second Grammy for the movie “The Children of Sánchez”.

Mangione appeared to a new audience when he appeared in the first seasons of “King of the Hill”, appearing as a commercial spokesman from Mega Lo Mart, where “buying feels so good.”

Mangione, brother of Jazz Gap Mangione pianist, with whom he associated in the Jazz brothers, began his career as a drinking jazz musician, strongly inspired by Dizzy Gillespie.

“He was also one of the first musicians that I saw that he had a relationship with the audience simply telling the audience what he was going to play and that he was in his band,” Mangione told The Post-Gazette.

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Mangione obtained a degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he would eventually return as director of the School Jazz team, and left his home to play with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

He donated his felt Brown hat and the score of his single -winner of the Grammy “Feele So Good”, as well as albums, songbooks and other ephemeral ones from his long and illustrious career to the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian in 2009.