Cola Boyy, the pop singer and songwriter who collaborated with the likes of The Avalanches and MGMT regardless of his spinal points, handed away Sunday … and his household is reeling from the loss.
The musician’s father, Joseph Urango Jr., is now talking to TMZ concerning the heartbreaking chain of occasions main as much as the passing of his son, a.okay.a, Matthew Urango. He says it was Matthew’s twin brother who made the devastating discovery — he’d gone to verify on Cola in mattress and located he wasn’t respiration.
Joseph says paramedics have been referred to as, however it was, tragically, too late and Cola Boyy was pronounced useless on the scene.
We’re instructed CB was on oxygen whereas at dwelling, and he was nonetheless hooked as much as it when his brother discovered him.
His household believes his passing was associated to his well being points. IYDK, Cola Boyy was born with spina bifida, scoliosis, and kyphosis, however he by no means let his well being maintain him again … proudly referring to himself because the “disabled disco innovator.”
The coroner is now investigating to find out the reason for dying.
Joseph emphasised the magnitude of dropping his son … including he had a deep love for his followers, bandmates, and particularly his household.
Cola Boyy’s label, File Makers, was first to announce his passing, describing him of their tribute as “quite a soul, a man with no age, a childlike spirit with the musicality of an old legend.”
He had an simple stage presence proper from the beginning when he started releasing music in 2018. He had additionally simply wrapped up work on his subsequent album and was gearing as much as share it with the world this summer time.
Most significantly, Cola Boyy was a trailblazer for disability-rights advocacy … telling TMRW Magazine society needed disabled individuals to be timid and docile, which at occasions weighed him down however by no means stopped him from attaining his desires.
He was 34.
RIP.
