Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBenny Mardones, best-known for his 1980 smash “Into the Night,” died at his home in Menifee, Calif.
after a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, according to Syracuse.com and multiple news reports. He was 73.A native of Cleveland, Mardones grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore and serviced in the Navy during the Vietnam war.
After his discharge, he worked as a staff songwriter for Mercury Records before making the move to become an artist in the late 1970s.
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