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Country music singer, songwriter, Brett James killed in plane crash

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Baylor University on Friday announced the death of Brett James.

The country music star, a member of the Class of '91 at Baylor, died Thursday at age 57.

James was the Grammy-winning songwriter of ‘Jesus, Take the Wheel’, and also a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

He was killed in a small-engine airplane crash on Sept. 18.