{"id":2304196,"date":"2026-02-28T00:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2304196"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:40:34","slug":"neil-sedaka-dies-legendary-singer-songwriter-was-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/neil-sedaka-dies-legendary-singer-songwriter-was-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Sedaka Dies: Legendary Singer-Songwriter Was 86"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Neil Sedaka<\/a>, the legendary singer-songwriter behind enduring pop standards such as \u201cBreaking Up Is Hard to Do,\u201d \u201cBad Blood<\/a>,\u201d \u201cLaughter in the Rain,\u201d and \u201cCalendar Girl<\/a>,\u201d has died. He was 86. \u201cOur family is devastated by the sudden passing of our beloved husband, father, and grandfather, Neil Sedaka,\u201d the Sedaka family said in a statement on social media. \u201cA true rock and roll legend, an inspiration to millions, but most importantly, at least to those of us who were lucky enough to know him, an incredible human being who will be deeply missed.\u201d Over the course of his career, Sedaka was nominated for five Grammy Awards, was inducted into the Songwriters…<\/div>\n

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Neil Sedaka, the legendary singer-songwriter behind enduring pop standards such as \u201cBreaking Up Is Hard to Do,\u201d \u201cBad Blood,\u201d \u201cLaughter in the Rain,\u201d and \u201cCalendar Girl,\u201d has died. He was 86. \u201cOur family is devastated by the sudden passing of our beloved husband, father, and grandfather, Neil Sedaka,\u201d the Sedaka family said in a statement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2304197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2304196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Neil-Sedaka-Dies-Legendary-Singer-Songwriter-Was-86.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304198,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304196\/revisions\/2304198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}