Ronald "Khalis" Bell, one of the co-founders of the funk, R&B and pop supergroup Kool & the Gang, died suddenly Wednesday at his home in the U.S.
Virgin Islands, Sujata Murthy of Universal Music Enterprises announced. He was 68. No cause of death was immediately available.
A composer, arranger, producer and performer, Bell was a driving force behind one of the most successful groups of the past five decades.
In 1964, he and older brother Robert "Kool" Bell joined neighborhood friends Spike Mickens, Dennis Thomas, Ricky Westfield, George Brown and Charles Smith in Jersey City, New Jersey, to create a signature blend of jazz, soul and funk.
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