LOS ANGELES — Kenny 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, ...
Kenny Rankin, 69, a singer-songwriter and musician whose song "Peaceful" was a hit for Helen Reddy and who had popular covers of a pair of Beatles hits, died June 7 at a hospital in Los Angeles of ...