2023-09-04 19:35:00
Steve Harwell, founder and ex-leader of the American group Smash Mouth, known worldwide for their hits “All Star” and “Walkin’ on the Sun”, died at the age of 56 following an illness, announced Monday the agent of the group to the specialized press.
The singer, who had left his group in 2021 for multiple health reasons, had been in palliative care for a few days and died at his home in Boise (Idaho, north) “surrounded by his family and friends”, indicated in a communicated to Rolling Stone magazine the manager of Smash Mouth, Robert Hayes.
The latter specified that the disappearance of the artist was due to medical complications resulting from liver disease.
Born in 1967, Steve Harwell founded Smash Mouth in California in 1994 with Kevin Coleman on drums, Greg Camp on guitar and Paul De Lisle on bass.
According to musicologists, the group that still exists plays a mix of pop, rock, ska and punk.
Smash Mouth rose to global prominence as early as 1997 with the album ‘Fush Yu Mang’ and the hit ‘Walkin’ on the Sun’ which, Harwell boasted to Rolling Stone in 2019, ‘changed music and the way people listen to music” thanks to this “sound that we created” and that “no one could copy”.
Two years later, in 1999, another triumph with the title track “All Star” from the album “Astro Lounge” nominated for the Grammy Awards and which appears on the soundtrack of the blockbuster cartoon “Shrek”.
According to the New York Times, “All Star”, which has been the subject of multiple adaptations in almost 25 years, has been streamed nearly a billion times on Spotify.
In his press release, Robert Hayes paid tribute to the singer “with the emblematic voice”, who had left his group in October 2021 after a concert in New York State where he had, among other things, insulted his audience.
Along with Harvell, Smash Mouth sold ten million albums worldwide, according to Hayes.
Since the 2010s, Harwell had experienced several health incidents in concert or in rehearsal and had advanced heart problems to justify his retirement two years ago. “Steve lived a 100% full throttle life. He lit up the universe before he died out“, greeted Robert Hayes.
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