Ronald "Khalis" Bell Passed Away!

Kool & The Gang co-founder Ronald "Khalis" Bell passed away.

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You find yourself dreading 2020 when some of the best icons of music are dying this year.

From entertainers to politicians, 2020 seems to be the beginning of a decade of death. So many famous faces had passed away this year. It's increased massively from the coronavirus which has claimed over 225,000 lives. The governance of Donald J. Trump has placed the United States in a downward spiral and I fear that Americans will vote to keep this disaster of a presidency gooing.

Your favorite shows are taped in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Vancouver, Toronto and Chicago.

With COVID-19 shutting down production in the United States and Canada, many companies are scaling back fall premieres and resorting to already ran shows to filler spots.

Music also took a hit. Many entertainers in the music business are scaling back releasing albums.

They can't tour right now with the coronavirus being one of the primary factors.

Even old school acts that continue to tour the nation are affected by the coronavirus.

While it's not confirmed, Kool & The Gang co-founder, Ronald "Khalis" Bell passed away at the age of 68 in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Bell died on Wednesday with his wife by his side, his publicist Sujata Murthy said. The cause of death has not been released yet.



Khalis started the group with brother Robert known as Kool in the late 1960s and became one of the most recognizable groups of the 1970s. They have blended, jazz, funk, R&B, rock and pop as their way of success.

Kool, also had D.T. (Dennis Thomas), Spike (Robert Mickens), Charles Smith, George Brown and Ricky West. They were all neighborhood friends growing up in Jersey City.

Kool & The Gang won a Grammy in 1978 for their work on the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever.





The group was honored with the BET Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 and inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame four years later.

A self-taught musician, Khalis created his own signature sound using horn lines, bass and synthesizer.

Kool & The Gang.

Khalis wrote the group's most successful songs. That included: Celebration, Cherish, Jungle Boogie and Summer Madness.

Khalis is survived by his wife Tia Sinclair Bell and was the father of 10 children. He was a Sunni Muslim and was given the name Khalis Bayyan by Imam Warith Deen Mohammed.

Khalis was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1951 and grew up in Orange and Jersey City, New Jersey.