Three Canine Night time Frontman Chuck Negron Useless at 83 – The Imperial Wire Insider

Chuck Negron — one of many founding members and frontman of rock band Three Canine Night time — has died.

The singer died on Monday at his dwelling in Studio Metropolis, CA surrounded by household, in keeping with his obituary. A explanation for dying has not been instantly revealed, however the singer battled continual obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD), for many years, and suffered from coronary heart failure on the finish of his life.

Negron was born in 1942 and raised within the Bronx, New York, and moved to Los Angeles to play basketball for California State College. Throughout this time, he explored music as he had grown up singing in doo wop teams.

He shaped Three Canine Night time in 1967 with Danny Hutton and the late Cory Wells, and their genre-defying mix of R&B, rock ‘n’ roll and concrete doo-wop music paired with fashionable, forward-looking manufacturing helped them grow to be one of many greatest teams of the ‘60s and early ‘70s.

A few of their greatest songs embrace “Pleasure To The World (Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog),” “One (Is The Loneliest Quantity),” “Simple To Be Onerous,” “Black and White” and “Mama Instructed Me (To not Come).” The band’s ultimate Billboard Scorching 100 hit got here with 1975’s “Til the World Ends.” The band broke up in 1976 because of inside conflicts.

Negron struggled together with his skyrocketed fame and fell into deep drug use — he even spent his complete earnings on medication and hit all-time low when he known as Skid Row his dwelling. After biking by rehab a number of instances, he obtained clear in 1991 and pulled off a serious comeback, launching a profitable solo profession that noticed him launch 7 albums between 1995 and 2017.

He recalled his ups and downs with dependancy in his acclaimed 1999 guide, “Three Canine Nightmare.”

He’s survived by his spouse Ami Albea Negron, his youngsters Shaunti Negron Levick, Berry Oakley, Charles Negron III, Charlotte Negron, and Annabelle Negron, his brother Rene (Jody) Negron, sister Denise (Janey) Negron and his 9 grandchildren, 5 nieces and a pair of nephews.

He was 83.