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This Feb. 18, 2009 photo shows R&B singer Denise LaSalle, a native of Leflore County, Miss., speaking with some lawmakers after being honored by the Senate at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. LaSalle, whose hit “Trapped by a Thing Called Love” topped the R&B charts in 1971, has died. She was 78. Musician and producer Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell, a close family friend of LaSalle’s, said Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018 that the singer died in Jackson, Tennessee.