{"id":318120,"date":"2025-03-05T21:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/roy-ayers-everybody-loves-the-sunshine-composer-dead-at-84"},"modified":"2025-03-05T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:16:35","slug":"roy-ayers-everybody-loves-the-sunshine-composer-dead-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/roy-ayers-everybody-loves-the-sunshine-composer-dead-at-84","title":{"rendered":"Roy Ayers, 'Everyone Loves the Sunshine' Composer Lifeless at eighty four"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roy Ayers<\/strong>, the great jazz vibraphonist known for his hit “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” is dead after suffering an illness … his family has announced.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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In a statement shared on his Facebook, his family says the music legend died on Tuesday in New York City after suffering from a long illness. The didn’t specify what illness he had.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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They concluded their statement saying … “He lived a beautiful 84 years and will be sorely missed. His family ask that you respect their privacy at this time, a celebration of Roy\u2019s life will be forthcoming.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n


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Ayers’ biggest hit was “Everybody Loves the Sunshine.” Over the year’s his music has been sampled or covered by everyone, including Kanye West<\/strong><\/a>, Common<\/strong><\/a>, Mary J. Blige<\/strong><\/a>, D’Angelo<\/strong><\/a>, and Tyler the Creator<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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His music really started to reach the masses with his work on the Pam Grier<\/strong> Blaxploitation film, “Coffy.” He went on to drop “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” in 1976.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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To give you an idea of how massive “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” is … to date, the song has more than 130 million streams on Spotify.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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He leaves behind his wife Argerie<\/strong>, and their two children, Ayana <\/strong>and Mtume<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Roy was 84.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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