Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s, has died aged 59, his manager said.
He died at a friend’s house in Los Angeles, Coolio’s manager Jarez Posey told The Associated Press, but the cause was not immediately clear.
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Coolio, whose legal name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr, won a Grammy for best solo rap performance for “Gangsta’s Paradise,” in 1996, and was nominated for five other Grammys during a career that began in the late-1980s.
He also came third in the sixth series of UK Celebrity Big Brother in 2009 and went on to join the cast of Ultimate Big Brother the following year, the last series of the show to air on Channel 4.
“This is sad news,” Ice Cube said on Twitter. “I witness first hand this man’s grind to the top of the industry.”
Coolio was born in Pennsylvania, but later moved to Compton, California, where he released his first single in 1987.
He recorded Gangsta’s Paradise for the 1995 film Dangerous Minds, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, and it went on to become one of the most successful rap songs of all time.
Source: https://inews.co.uk/
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