Neil Sedaka — a legendary singer-songwriter who gained worldwide fame within the Sixties — has been rushed to a hospital in L.A. … TMZ has realized.
Household sources inform TMZ … Neil wasn’t feeling nicely Friday morning and was taken in an ambulance to the hospital, the place he’s recovering.
The L.A. County West Hollywood sheriff’s station tells TMZ … deputies assisted the fireplace division on a “medical request” name, and paramedics transported him to an area hospital at about 8 AM right now.
Sedaka started his profession by singing with the group The Tokens within the mid-Fifties. The Tokens blew up in 1961 with their hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” … although Neil had left the band by that point.
Neil had a number of No. 1 hits within the early ’60s … together with “Oh! Carol,” “Calendar Woman,” and “Breaking Up is Onerous to Do.” He noticed a profession resurgence within the mid-Nineteen Seventies with the success of his songs “Laughter within the Rain” and “Dangerous Blood.”
Sedaka has been nominated for 5 Grammy awards in his illustrious profession. He was inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame in 1983, and he is additionally acquired a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame.
Neil has popped up on tv a number of occasions over time too … with visitors spots on “King of Queens” and “The Carol Burnett Present” amongst his credit. He additionally served as a visitor Choose on “American Idol” season 2 — raving about Clay Aiken’s cowl of his tune “Solitaire.”
Neil married his spouse Leba Strassberg in 1962 … the couple share two kids.