Kool & the Gang co-founder and singer, Ronald “Khalis” Bell, is dead. He was 68. Bell passed away in the U.S. Virgin Islands at his home on Wednesday morning with his wife by his side, publicist Sujata Murthy said. No information regarding his cause of death has been released. Koo...
George “Funky” Brown, the co-founderand longtime drummerof Kool & The Gang who helped write such hits as “Too Hot,”“Ladies Night,”“Joanna” and the party favorite “Celebration,”died Thursdayin Los Angeles at age 74. Brown died after a battle with ...
Ronald “Khalis” Bell, the singer, songwriter and saxophonist whose group Kool & the Gang became one of the most celebrated and musically eclectic funk bands in the 1970s and beyond, died Wednesday at his U.S. Virgin Islands home at the age of 68, a rep confirmed toRolling Stone. A c...
Dennis “Dee Tee” Thomas, the co-founder and saxophonist of Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 70.
Dennis “Dee Tee” Thomas, longtime saxophonist and co-founding member of the legendary funk outfit Kool & The Gang, has died at the age of 70. The band announced Thomas’ death Saturday, revealing that he “passed away peacefully in his sleep” in New Jersey. No cause of death was prov...
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Clifford Adams (pictured), the famed trombonist for the mostly ’70s and ’80s R&B chart-topping group Kool & the Gang, passed away at age 62 on Monday after a battle with liver cancer, according to NJ.com. SEE ALSO: Two Tuskegee Airmen, Lifelong Friends, Die On the Same Day Adams...
Bell founded Kool & the Gang with his brother, Robert “Kool” Bell, and their high school friends Dennis Thomas, Robert Mickens, Charles Smith, George Brown, and Ricky West in 1964. The band rose to prominence several years later, becoming one of the most successful soul and funk...
Spread the love NEW YORK (AP) — Dennis “Dee Tee” Thomas, a founding member of the long-running soul-funk band Kool & the Gang known for such hits as “Celebration” and “Get Down On It,” has died. He was 70. He died peacefully in his sleep Saturday in New Jersey, where he...
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