{"id":503953,"date":"2026-02-27T22:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503953\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:25:09","slug":"legendary-singer-neil-sedaka-rushed-to-hospital-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503953\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Singer Neil Sedaka Rushed to Hospital in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singer-Songwriter Neil Sedaka
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\n Published
\n February 27, 2026
\n 10:36 AM PST
\n |
\n Updated
\n February 27, 2026
\n 2:03 PM PST\n <\/p>\n

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1:48 PM PT — Neil Sedaka has died<\/a>, his family confirmed to TMZ.<\/p>\n

Neil Sedaka<\/a> — a legendary singer-songwriter who gained worldwide fame in the 1960s — has been rushed to a hospital in L.A. … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

Family sources tell TMZ … Neil wasn’t feeling well Friday morning and was taken in an ambulance to the hospital, where he is recovering.<\/p>\n

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The L.A. County West Hollywood sheriff’s station tells TMZ … deputies assisted the fire department on a “medical request” call, and paramedics transported him to a local hospital at about 8 AM today.<\/p>\n

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Neil had multiple No. 1 hits in the early ’60s … including “Oh! Carol,” “Calendar Girl,” and “Breaking Up is Hard to Do.” He saw a career resurgence in the mid-1970s with the success of his songs “Laughter in the Rain” and “Bad Blood.” He was a founding member of the Tokens in the late 1950s.<\/p>\n

Sedaka has been nominated for five Grammy awards in his illustrious career. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983, and he’s also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n

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Neil has popped up on television a few times over the years too … with guests spots on “King of Queens” and “The Carol Burnett Show” among his credits. He also served as a guest Judge on “American Idol” season 2 — raving about Clay Aiken’s cover of his song “Solitaire.”<\/p>\n

Neil married his wife Leba Strassberg in 1962 … the couple share two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer-Songwriter Neil Sedaka Rushed to Hospital Published February 27, 2026 10:36 AM PST | Updated February 27, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-503953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}