Carl Carlton, the Detroit-born singer behind timeless hits like “Eternal Love” and “She’s a Dangerous Mama Jama (She’s Constructed, She’s Stacked),” died Sunday, based on his son. He was 75. A reason behind demise was not introduced, although Carlton reportedly skilled ongoing well being points after struggling a stroke in 2019.

“RIP Dad,” his son Carlton Hudgens II wrote. “Lengthy onerous struggle in life and you may be missed. All the time love you.”

Carlton started performing within the Sixties underneath the identify Little Carl Carlton, later dropping the nickname as his profession took off. In 1971, he landed his first main hit on the Billboard Soul Singles chart with “I Can Really feel It.” His breakthrough got here in 1974 with “Eternal Love,” a canopy of Robert Knight’s track that reached the highest 10 of the Billboard Scorching 100 and have become the definitive model, incomes greater than 25 million Spotify streams.

He later cemented his legacy with 1981’s “She’s a Dangerous Mama Jama,” a Grammy-nominated single that has been broadly sampled in hip hop, surpassed 100 million streams, and appeared in quite a few movie and tv soundtracks.