Robbie Pardlo Passed Away!

Singer Robbie Pardlo has passed away.

The former lead singer from the one time group City High has passed away.

Robbie Pardlo has passed away at the age of 47.

Robbie Pardlo, Ryan Toby and Claudette Ortiz were a New Jersey based group that made the one hit wonder song, "What Would You Do?" which reached No. 8 on the Billboard Top Ten in 2001.

The group released their self titled debut and soon broke up after the release.

A representative for Pardlo tells TMZ that the artist was surrounded by family and friends in his hometown of Willingboro before he died July 17. They did not share a cause of death.

Pardlo was 46.

City High is known for the 2001 hit song “What Would You Do?”

Pardlo was originally a solo artist before teaming with Ryan Toby (“Sister Act 2″) and singer Claudette Ortiz, who he had dated at Willingboro High School. Toby was also an alum of the school.

Toby and Ortiz have briefly married and have two children. Ortiz has a child from another relationship. 

City High signed to Interscope Records through Booga Basement, the label run by Newark and East Orange’s Wyclef Jean and his cousin Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis.

The Jean and Wonda-produced “What Would You Do?” talks about poverty, sex work, drugs and child sexual abuse.

Two years before charting, it was also included on the soundtrack to the 1999 movie “Life” starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence.

City High.

The second single from City High’s first and only album was “Caramel” featuring Philadelphia rapper Eve, released Sept. 11, 2001. The song reached No. 18 on the Hot 100.

City High broke up in 2003. Ortiz and Toby married in 2004 and divorced in 2007. They have two sons.

Pardlo was also a member of the R&B quartet First Take.

Before City High’s big success, he sang backup alongside Toby on the 1999 Whitney Houston song “My Love is Your Love,” which rose to No. 4 on the Billboard chart.

Pardlo is survived by his wife Anika Pardlo; his children Lyric and Chord-Andrew Pardlo; his mother Marion Pardlo; brother Gregory Pardlo, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (“Digest”); and aunt Cynthia Boyer.