By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Mark A. Kellner, for Adventist Review)

Richard Wayne Penniman, a Seventh-day Adventist and musician best known as Little Richard, passed to his rest May 9, 2020 at the age of 87. Controversial for his role in creating rock ‘n’ roll music in the 1950s, the Oakwood University alumnus retained his Adventist faith and publicly returned to it in his later years.
A son, Dan Penniman, said his father died of cancer. Little Richard was said to be in poor health in recent years following hip surgery in 2009. And in 2017 he told a 3ABN…

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