American musician, songwriter, record producer.
Born February 25th, 1953 in New York City. [ref]
Died May 19th, 2018 at 65 years old in New York City (heart failure). [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel