Mitch Miller, a powerful and influential music producer who helped bring a number of American pop stars to fame during the 1950s, died on Saturday. He was 99.

Margaret Miller Reuther, his daughter, confirmed the news on Monday, saying that her father suffered from a brief illness before passing away at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

Miller, a native of Rochester, New York who was born on the 4^th of July, was a former department head at Mercury Records and Columbia Records. His job included discovering, signing, mentoring and producing singers with the most potential of making it big in the industry. Some of these popular singers were Patti Page, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, and Rosemary Clooney. He was also the host of the television show called “Sing Along With Mitch.”

Miller had three children with his deceased wife Frances, who died in 2000.

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