Editing Curtis Mayfield (section)

===Final years and death===
Mayfield received the [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]] in 1994. In February 1998, he had to have his right leg [[amputated]] due to diabetes. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 1999. Health reasons prevented him from attending the ceremony, which included fellow inductees [[Paul McCartney]], [[Billy Joel]], [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[Dusty Springfield]], [[George Martin]], and 1970s Curtom signees and labelmates [[the Staple Singers]].

Mayfield's last appearance on record was with the group [[Bran Van 3000]] on the song "[[Astounded (Bran Van 3000 song)|Astounded]]" for their album ''[[Discosis]]'', recorded just before his death and released in 2001. However, his health had steadily declined following his paralysis, so his vocals were not new but were instead lifted from archive recordings, including "Move On Up".

Mayfield died from complications of [[type 2 diabetes]] at 7:20 EST (12:20 GMT) on December 26, 1999, at the North Fulton Regional Hospital in [[Roswell, Georgia]].<ref name="Jet-2000" /> He was survived by his wife, Altheida Mayfield; his mother, Mariam Jackson; 10 children; two sisters, Carolyn Falls and Judy Mayfield; a brother, Kenneth Mayfield; and seven grandchildren.<ref name="Thurber-1999" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/12/27/singer-songwriter-curtis-mayfield-dies/3d3c153c-2eac-4621-8d4e-f9491e24e041/|title=Singer, Songwriter Curtis Mayfield Dies|last=Weil|first=Martin|date=December 27, 1999|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref name="Jet-2000" />