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Jeff Prepare dinner, one of many unique members of the nation band Alabama, has died, based on the group’s consultant, Don Murry Grubbs. He was 73.
Prepare dinner died at his trip house in Destin, Florida on Monday “along with his household and shut associates by his facet,” based on a press launch and an announcement posted to the band’s social media accounts. Prepare dinner, the assertion added, was identified with Parkinson’s illness in 2012.
A guitarist and co-founder of Alabama, Prepare dinner additionally performed fiddle and different musical devices for the band. He’s “credited for introducing the electrical double neck guitar to nation music,” the assertion mentioned.
He was inducted into the Musicians Corridor of Fame and Museum in Nashville in 2019 and can be a member of each the Nation Music Corridor of Fame and Fiddlers Corridor of Fame.
Over the course of his nation music profession as a part of Alabama, Prepare dinner offered 80 million albums and charted 43 No. 1 hits.
The band loved 13 Grammy nominations and two wins – again to again trophies in 1983 and 1984 for greatest nation efficiency by a duo or group with vocal for “Mountain Music” and “The Nearer You Get,” respectively.
Prepare dinner, a local of Fort Payne, Alabama, is survived by his spouse of 27 years Lisa Prepare dinner, his mom Betty and his brother David, amongst different relations.