DAVID CROSBY. The famous rock singer David Crosby died, at the age of 81, announces his family, who did not communicate on the causes of his disappearance.
He was an American rock legend: David Crosby is no more. The singer and guitarist is dead, announced his family in a press release, Thursday, January 19. According to his wife, quoted in the document, taken up by the newspaper variety, David Crosby succumbed to a “long illness.” The death of the artist with a sixty-year career, co-founder of the Byrds or the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and recognizable by his long white hair, has been confirmed with theAFP by his agent.
The short statement from the singer’s family does not specify the date of David Crosby’s disappearance, but indicates that the artist died surrounded by his wife and son Django. On his Twitter account, the singer and musician was still active on January 18.
How was David Crosby?
The singer David Crosby, present in Woodstock in 1969, was the emblem of his time. True to theamerican way of life years 1960-1970 followed by the rock stars, the man has multiplied the excesses all his life by tasting all the drugs or almost. An excessive and addictive consumption which did not get the better of him, a chance of which the singer was aware as he explained to the RollingStone in 2014: “I don’t know why I’m alive, while Jimi [Hendrix] is not, that Janis [Joplin] isn’t… I was lucky.”
Drugs and excesses, however, did not spare the health of David Crosby, who saw his health decline: diabetes, several heart attacks until a liver transplant in 1994. A time addict to heroin and crack, David Crosby may have owed his salvation to his short stay in prison in 1986 which forced him into forced drug addiction. The singer assured never to have touched illegal substances since his release. When he returned in 2014, the man seemed to have regained his health and was still artistically active in 2022. However, it was a “long illness” that claimed David Crosby according to his family, an illness that was eating away at him little by little. fire for several months? Relatives of the singer did not reveal anything about this.
David Crosby, folk rock legend
David Crosby embraced music very early on and never left it. While he is not 25 years old, he helped give birth to the group Byrds with whom he brought some of the first guitar riffs mixing influences of British rock and folk. After five years with the Byrds, the Californian singer began his adventure with the famous group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in 1969. The folk rocker then began a solo career in 1971 during which he continued to produce songs and albums with his different musical groups. It is with these two groups that David Crosby was twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, while five albums to which he contributed are ranked by RollingStone in the top 500 greatest albums of all time. In the years 1970-1980, the singer set up a duet with one of his companions: Crosby and Nash.
A new group was formed in 1996 by David Crosby and once is not custom, the group finds its name by joining those of all these members: Crosby, Pevar & Raymond. After a break of a few years taken shortly before the 2010s, the Californian artist returns in 2014 for a new solo album, twenty years after his last solo project. Back on stage, David Crosby distinguished himself in music until 2022.