Drummer Taylor Hawkins dead

Taylor Hawkins, the drummer for the Foo Fighters, was discovered dead in a Colombian hotel on Friday, as bereaved fans waited outside in horror.

Hawkins’ death was revealed by the band on Twitter late Friday. He was fifty years old.

“His musical passion and contagious laughter will live on with all of us forever,” the band said in a statement.

Outside the Four Seasons Casa Medina Hotel, where Hawkins was thought to be staying, police vehicles, an ambulance, and admirers had gathered.

Colombian authorities have made no remark on Hawkins’ death. In a tweet, the US Embassy in Bogota conveyed its sympathies.

“It was a band I grew up listening to. “This leaves me empty,” Juan Sebastian Anchique, 23, said outside the hotel as he grieved Hawkins.

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Hawkins was born Oliver Taylor Hawkins in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1972, and grew up in Laguna Beach, California. Before winning his first large engagement as a drummer for Canadian vocalist Sass Jordan, he was a member of the small Southern California band Sylvia. He subsequently spent the mid-1990s as Alanis Morissette’s touring drummer until Grohl persuaded him to join the Foo Fighters.

It’s the second time Grohl has had to deal with the loss of a close bandmate. Grohl was Nirvana’s drummer when Kurt Cobain died in 1994. Hawkins was undoubtedly the most visible member of the band after Grohl, appearing in interviews with Grohl and performing important roles in the band’s videos.

Hawkins was born Oliver Taylor Hawkins in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1972. In February, the band released their horror-comedy “Studio 666.” At the clip, the musicians make fun of themselves while working on their 2021 album “Medicine at Midnight” in a creepy mansion they hired out.

“It’s something I never expected or wanted to accomplish.” “It just sort of occurred,” Foo Fighters member Dave Grohl told The Washington Post. “A buddy of mine… spoke with these individuals who claimed they want to produce a horror film with the Foo Fighters.” ‘That’s the craziest f–king notion I’ve ever heard in my life,’ I said. That s–t would never happen to us.’