Conspicuously absent, however, are Cooke's widow Barbara Campbell, who remarried four months after his killing, and Allen Klein, his last manager who continues to control Cooke's business affairs. He married Delores Mohawk, divorced and eventually married Barbara They … American Singer Sam Cooke was born Samuel Cook on 22nd January, 1931 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA and passed away on 11th Dec 1964 Hacienda Motel, Los Angeles, California, USA aged 33. Cooke shared two daughters with Barbara Campbell: Linda and Tracey. Gender. Trivia. ... Barbara Womack. 5. 82 (approx.) Barbara Campbell and Sam Cooke were married for 5 years before Sam Cooke died, leaving behind his partner and 3 children.. Soon after, her mother married Sam's protégé Bobby Womack on March 5, 1965. Cooke, and Sam's brother, L.C. They had 3 children, Linda M. (67), Tracy (60) and Vincent (59). It is fairly well known that protege, Bobby Womack, married Cooke’s widow, Barbara, just three months after his death, and that Cooke’s daughter, Linda, later married Bobby’s brother, Cecil Womack. Here's more about what Sam's brothers did to Bobby after he married Barbara Cooke: Bobby Womack admits in his autobiography "Midnight Mover," that Sam Cooke's family had a real problem with him marrying Sam's widow (Barbara). Female. Linda Womack (née Cooke) is the eldest child of Barbara Campbell and Sam Cooke, born on April 25, 1953. 1936. May 17, 2011 - Responding to Zeriiya's lawsuit, Jody Klein notes that in addition to the millions of dollars that Abkco has earned for Sam Cooke's legal heirs, the company and the Klein family have, for 47 years, provided non-contractual financial support for Sam Cooke's family, including Sam's father, Rev. Barbara Campbell was Sam Cooke's childhood sweetheart with whom he had a daughter, Linda. In Bobby Womack's 2006 autobiography, Midnight Mover, he revealed that he would sneak out of the bedroom he shared with Campbell to enjoy a late-night tryst with her daughter Linda, who was 18 at the time. According to his brothers, Sam’s thirst for knowledge began in early childhood, and never left him. What happened between Sam Cooke's daughter and Barbara Campbell's husband? They had two daughters – Linda and Tracey and a son, Vincent, who died tragically at the age of eighteen months. The 2019 documentary Lady You Shot Me: Life and Death of Sam Cooke also sparked […] Barbara Campbell. In December 1964, when she was 11 years old, her father was killed. The real Mrs. Cooke, Barbara Campbell — mother to his two children, Linda and Tracey — was elsewhere, no doubt familiar with his nocturnal excursions. But there is more to the story. Barbara Womack Family. Cooke’s widow, Barbara, who met him when she was 13, recalls how as teen-agers they dreamed of fancy cars and big houses. 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