Songwriter Allee Willis, famous for her work with Earth, Wind & Fire as well as the “Friends” theme and the “Color Purple” Broadway song score, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at 72. The cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Prudence Fenton, the animator and producer who has been described as Willis’ soulmate, was said to be “in total shock” over her partner’s sudden death, which occurred at 6:05 p.m.
Willis was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018 for a catalog that also included hits like the Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance,” the Pet Shop Boys’ and Dusty Springfield’s “What Have I Done to Deserve This?,” Patti LaBelle’s “Lead Me On,” EWF’s “Boogie Wonderland” and the theme from “The Karate Kid,” “You’re the Best.”
“I, very thankfully, have a few songs that will not go away,” Willis told the New York Times, “but they’re schlepping along 900 others.”
Willis had been working with rapper Big Sean, at her home for the last few months. The intergenerational Detroit natives had met at Motown’s 60th-anniversary celebration.
The Times profile tied to her Songwriters Hall of Fame induction called her “a queen of kitsch who made the whole world sing.”
Willis was legendary in Los Angeles for her outlandishly retro style sense, in her outfits but especially her home, the pink, legendarily kitchsy 1937 Streamline Moderne L.A. house known as “Willisville.” The home was recently the setting for a photo shoot for Variety‘s Billie Eilish cover.
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