Los Angeles, Feb. 13 (Reuters): Jazz and R&B singer Al Jarreau, a seven-time Grammy winner whose hits included We're in This Love Together and Moonlighting, died yesterday in Los Angeles at age 76, just days after announcing he was retiring from touring because of poor health.

His Facebook page said Jarreau "passed away this morning, at about 600am LA time. He was in the hospital, kept comfortable by his wife, son, and a few of his family and friends."

No cause of death was given.

Jarreau was hospitalised for exhaustion last week and forced to cancel his remaining tour dates for 2017. He announced on Wednesday he was giving up touring.

A post on his Facebook page on Thursday said he had been "recovering slowly and steadily".

The Moonlighting theme, for which he wrote the lyrics, cemented his place in pop culture.

Jarreau was considered one of jazz's greatest vocalists, with a mastery of scat singing and vocal percussion. But his smooth, breezy hit We're in This Love Together from the 1981 album Breakin' Away made him a mainstream commercial success.