Third LFO singer lifeless: Brian ‘Brizz’ Gillis was 48
Brian “Brizz” Gillis, a co-founding member of the Nineteen Nineties boy band LFO, died Wednesday at 48.
Gillis is the third LFO member to die: In 2010, Wealthy Cronin, 36, passed after a stroke whereas battling leukemia, and Devin Lima died at 41 of adrenal most cancers in 2018.
Member Brad Fischetti introduced Gillis’ dying Thursday on LFO’s Facebook page, writing that he doesn’t know the small print of his former bandmate’s dying.
“My relationship with Brian was advanced. It contained moments of nice tribulation but additionally of nice pleasure,” Fischetti mentioned. “I realized so much from him in regards to the enterprise of music and put collectively and rock a present. And it’s these constructive facets of our relationship that I’ll lean on now and without end.
“I’ve prayed for Brian on daily basis for a few years,” he added. “And I’ll proceed to hope for him, for his beloved father, for his associates, his household, and people who liked him. Particular prayers for Pistol Pete and Terry Edwards; two males who maintain a particular place in my coronary heart and undoubtedly held a particular place in Brian’s coronary heart.”
The Submit has contacted representatives for LFO for remark.
Gillis, Fischetti and Cronin fashioned LFO, which stands for Lyte Funkie Ones, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1995.
The trio noticed early success with a remake of Yvonne Elliman’s “If I Can’t Have You,” plus a canopy of “Step By Step” by New Children on the Block in 1997.
However two years later, Gillis would depart the band to give attention to his solo profession.
He was changed by Lima, and LFO would go on to launch the basic boy band smash “Summer Girls” in 1999.
The group was managed by infamous boy band supervisor and convicted fraudster Lou Pearlman, who died in prison in 2016.
LFO break up in 2002, however Fischetti and Lima briefly reunited in 2017.
“I do know that quickly or perhaps already, Brizz can be greeted by Wealthy and Devin. And I hope that collectively, they may make some candy sounds. I would love that,” Fischetti added on Fb.