Kool & The Gang co-founder Ronald “Khalis” Bell has died, aged 68

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Kool & The Gang co-founder and producer Ronald “Khalis” Bell has died at the age of 68, Variety reports and Pitchfork points out. Bell, who composed, arranged, and performed on many of the band’s greatest hits including “Celebration,” formed the band with his brother Robert “Kool” in the mid-60s, and went on to find huge success, including two Grammys and induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Ronald Bell was a musician who co-founded Kool & the Gang and wrote and composed songs including their 1980 No. 1 hit, “Celebration.”Also known as Khalis Bayyan, Bell co-founded Kool & the Gang along with his brother, Robert “Kool” Bell, and several neighborhood friends in 1964.

Ronald "Khalis" Bell, one of the co-founders of the funk, R&B and pop supergroup Kool & the Gang, died suddenly Wednesday at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Sujata Murthy of Universal Music Enterprises announced.

Ronald “Khalis” Bell, a co-founder, singer and producer of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 68.

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Kool & the Gang co-founder and singer, Ronald “Khalis” Bell, is dead. He was 68.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerRonald “Khalis” Bell, a cofounder and singer of Kool & the Gang who wrote some of the group’s biggest hits, has died at age 68. Bell died at his home in the US Virgin Islands Wednesday morning, according to publicist Sujata Murthy. No cause of death has been released.Kool & the Gang was formed in 1964 in Jersey City, New Jersey by brothers Robert “Kool” Bell and Ronald “Khalis” Bell.

Kool & The Gang co-founder Ronald Bell has died aged 68, a representative for the singer has said.

Ronald “Khalis” Bell, a co-founder and singer of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 68.Bell died at his home in the U.S.

LOS ANGELES -- Ronald “Khalis” Bell, a co-founder and singer of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 68.Bell died at his home in the U.S.