Linda Boulware-Wilson, who told TMZ that he passed away peacefully at 10:01 a.m. at his home in Tulsa. She was reportedly holding the singer’s hand as he drew his last breath.
Wilson’s widow says that her late husband had suffered a stroke last week, which put the star into a semi-coma that never recovered from.
He had reportedly experienced several strokes over the years. Linda described Ronnie in a Facebook post as “a genius with creating, producing, and playing the flugelhorn, trumpet, keyboards, and singing music, from childhood to his early seventies.”Born in Tulsa, the funk-pioneering polyglot had created the Gap Band in the late ’60s along with his brothers Charlie and Robert.
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