Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died on the age of fifty.
A reason for dying has not but been launched. Foo Fighters had been touring South America and had been scheduled to carry out on the Pageant Estéreo Picnic right now (March 25) in Bogota, Colombia. Multiple sources have reported that Hawkins was discovered useless in his lodge room in Bogota.
The musician’s dying was confirmed by way of the band’s official social media pages.
“The Foo Fighters household is devastated by the tragic and premature dying of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” the group mentioned of their assertion. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will reside on with all of us perpetually. Our hearts exit to his spouse, youngsters and household, and we ask that their privateness be handled with the utmost respect on this unimaginably troublesome time.”
Born in Fort Price, Texas, in 1972, Hawkins and his household moved to the Southern California suburb of Laguna Seaside in 1976. It’s there that he grew up and developed a love of music, becoming a member of his first band whereas in highschool.
In June of 1995, Hawkins turned the touring drummer for Alanis Morissette, a place he stored for 2 years. Whereas on this position he met Dave Grohl, his future Foo Fighters bandmate, and the 2 instantly shared a mutual respect.
“I’d met Dave on tour with Alanis,” Hawkins later recalled. “She mentioned, what are you going to do when Dave asks you to hitch the Foo Fighters?” The drummer admitted he was shocked when Morrissette’s prediction got here true. “I believed, they’d a drummer. They’re pleased. I like the Foo Fighters. I like the way in which they’re. And like all good musician with a gig, I mentioned [to Morrissette] that I’d by no means depart you (laughing). After which I came upon the Foo Fighter drummer give up and I used to be like, I discovered the quantity [for Grohl]. ‘Dude! I’ll be your drummer!”
Hawkins joined the band’s lineup in 1997 and would go on to play on eight of the Foo Fighters’ studio albums: There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999), One by One (2002), In Your Honor (2005), Echoes, Silence, Persistence & Grace (2007), Losing Gentle (2011), Sonic Highways (2014), Concrete and Gold (2017) and Drugs at Midnight (2021).
Whereas Hawkins abilities behind the package had been evident, he additionally showcased a sturdy singing voice. The rocker supplied backing vocals on an extended checklist of Foo Fighters tracks over time, and took on lead singer duties for such songs as “Lifetime of Phantasm,” “Chilly Day within the Solar,” and “Sunday Rain.”
Outdoors of Foo Fighters, Hawkins launched three albums underneath his Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders title, and a 2014 LP together with his prog-rock aspect undertaking the Birds of Devil. He was additionally the founder and frontman of the quilt band Chevy Metallic, which has been steadily touring for greater than a decade.
In 2021, Hawkins was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame as a member of Foo Fighters.
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