The American singer and composer had been diagnosed with dementia last year
Brian WilsonLegend of music and leader of the group Beach guysHe died at the age of 82. The information was confirmed by the family in a publication on social networks, without confirming the date of death.
“It is with a broken heart that we inform that our beloved Father Brian Wilson is dead. We are speechless right now. Please respect our privacy in this moment of mourning,” says the family message.
Brian Wilson had seven children with three different women. With his last wife, Melinda Ledbetter, with whom he remained for 28 years, he adopted five. Melinda died in January last year. Months later, the singer was diagnosed with dementia.
“Brian Wilson was the face of American youth of the early 1960s, is the perfect definition of the term” tortured soul “,” wrote the editorialist Sérgio Martins in Estadão At the time of the diagnosis of the artist’s disease.
“From an early age, he was tormented by the rumors that doubted his talent and said he had to kill himself. He spent decades based on medicines until last May he was diagnosed with dementia and put under the care of his children and entrepreneurs,” said Martins.
The beach boys were founded in 1961 in California, the United States. The album Pet souths1966 was listed by several publications as one of the most influential albums in the history of music. The band was included in the Rock Fame Hall in 1988.
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The excellence of the album, fully designed by Wilson, is due to a combination of factors that include the complexity of their vocal harmonies, wealth and instrumental innovation and the emotional depth of their texts, which exploited themes such as love and loss. The arrangements had a variety of instruments, jazz elements and classical music.
The album also influenced the Beatles to create Sgt. Pepe (1967), considered the greatest masterpiece of pop music. Paul McCartney said several times that his favorite song is God knows it aloneone of the greatest successes in Pet souths.
Wilson’s life has been represented Love and mercy (2014), biography directed by Bill Pohlad. The film stands out for its innovative approach, alternating between two distinct phases of Wilson’s life: his youth in the 1960s, played by Paul Damage during the period of creation of Pet southsAnd his most mature life in the 80s, played by John Cusack, when Wilson faces personal and mental health challenges.
Two other recent documentaries have studied the trajectory of the musician. The boys of the beach ;
In Road promised for a long time (2021; available for rent at Amazon Prime), from Brent Wilson, is a tour of the singer with the journalist Jason Fine through the places where he lived in Los Angeles. There is an exchange of ideas on the evolution of group music, which has evolved from Iê-iê-iê to become a complex work.
Brian Wilson was only once in Brazil, in performance at the 2004 Tim Festival, held at the Jockey Club in San Paolo. The artist visited the world tours with his solo band until 2022.
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Source: Terra
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