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• Jarreau won seven Grammys over a career spanning 50 years
• He had only retired from touring last week

(CNN)Al Jarreau, the jazz-pop musician best known for the hits "Breakin' Away," "We're in This Love Together" and the theme song to the popular 1980's TV show, "Moonlighting," died Sunday, according to posts on his verified social media accounts. He was 76.

Jarreau died about 9 a.m. ET in Los Angeles surrounded by his wife, son and a few friends, according to posts on his Facebook page and Twitter account.

Nicknamed the "Acrobat of Scat" for his innovative vocal stylings, Jarreau was one of the few performers of his day who successfully bridged pop, jazz and R&B. He released more than 20 albums over his storied career, won seven Grammy Awards and remained a tireless performer right up until his death.

He had only retired from touring last week. A February 8 statement on Jarreau's Twitter account announced his retirement from touring after being hospitalized in Los Angeles for exhaustion.

Al Jarreau at a jazz festival in the Netherlands in 2006.

"He is thankful for his 50 years of traveling the world in ministry through music, and for everyone to share this with him -- his faithful audience, the dedicated musicians, and so many others who supported his efforts," it said.

Alwyn Lopez Jarreau was born March 12, 1940 in Milwaukee. His was a musical household.

"My mother was a piano teacher and church organist. My dad was a minister, and a singer," Jarreau said in a 2012 invterview with All About Jazz. "My brothers were singing quartet music in the living room when I was four and five years old. They were singing ... [scatting]...stuff like that, that's what I wanted to be like. I wanted to be like my brothers, singing this jazzy music."

After earning a master's degree in vocational rehabilitation from the University of Iowa, Jarreau moved to San Francisco in the late 1960s, where after crossing paths with a young pianist -- and future jazz legend himself -- named George Duke, he decided to quit his day job and pursue music full time with the George Duke Trio.