Patrick Swayze
August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009
Although best remembered as a handsome leading man in many popular films throughout the ’80s and ’90s, Patrick Swayze left his mark on popular music as well. Besides starring in such music-centric films as Dirty Dancing and Ghost, Swayze achieved success as a song and dance man on stage, starring in such musicals as Guys and Dolls, Goodtime Charley and Chicago. Thanks to his role in Ghost, Swayze earned a place in the hip-hop cultural via the lyric “I’m Swayze” as in “I’m Ghost,” or “I’m gone.” In 1987, Swayze earned a Golden Globe nomination for a song he co-wrote and recorded for the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, “She’s Like The Wind.” Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January of 2008, Patrick Swayze succumbed to the disease on September 14, 2009. He was 57.
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