Pop singer Eddie Fisher gained fame crooning love songs like "I'm Yours" and "Thinking of You" to teenage girls in the early 1950s. But His life was overshadowed by drug use, gambling and failed marriages to actresses Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor.
Fisher passed away Wednesday night at His home in Berkeley or Complications from hip surgery, His daughter, Tricia Leigh Fisher of Los Angeles, Told The Associated Press. He was 82.
"Late last evening the world lost a true icon America," Fisher's family said in a statement released by publicist British Reece. "One of the greatest voices of the century passed away. He was an extraordinary talent and a true man."
In the early 50s, Fisher sold millions of records with 32 hit songs include "Any Time," "Oh, My Pa-Pa," "Wish You Were Here," "Lady of Spain" and "Count Your Blessings."
His fame was enhanced by His 1955 marriage to movie darling Debbie Reynolds - They Were touted as "America's favorite couple" - and the birth of two children.
Their daughter Carrie Fisher Became a movie star herself in the first three "Star Wars" movies as Princess Leia, and later as a best-selling author of "Postcards From the Edge" and Other Books.
Carrie Fisher must or Spent 2008 on the road with her Autobiographical show "Wishful Drinking." In an interview with The Associated Press, she Told, singing with her father on stage in San Jose. Eddie Fisher was by then in a wheelchair and living in San Francisco.
"He was loved and Will Be Missed By His four children as well as His six grandchildren," said Carrie Fischer on her Twitter account, the website says Which Has Been verified as belonging to the actress.
When Eddie Fisher's best friend, producer Mike Todd, was killed in a 1958 plane crash, Fisher comforted the widow, Elizabeth Taylor. Amid sensationalist headlines, Reynolds and Fisher Divorced married Taylor in 1959.
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