BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge singer Floyd Brown died this week, his niece shared on Facebook. 

Brown passed away on Tuesday following a battle with cancer, she said. 

Brown recorded his first record, "Thunderbird Beach," at the age of 14 in 1960 before going on to record for both major and independent labels, according to a report by The Advocate. 

He also won the Nashville television show "You Can Be a Star" in 1983. Brown owned several nightclubs in Baton Rouge, including Floyd Brown's Embers, The Brown Derby and Studebaker's. 

Brown followed his 2005 collection "The Best of Floyd Brown" with "Raising Cane on the Bayou" in 2015.