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Comprised of Thes One and Double K, PUTS released over a dozen subsequent projects during the course of their career and was one of several musical artists selected to appear in and remix the main theme song for
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But on Saturday night (January 30), Beat Junkies turntablist and fellow L.A. Hip Hop staple Rhettmatic revealed Double K had passed away at the age of 43, although no cause of death has been disclosed.
“Just found out that Los Angeles last another hero,” Rhett tweeted. “Rest in peace to Crescent Heights very own DJ Double K of @puts. Mike was a good man.”
The departed: Heroes, celebrities and rogues, from Oregon and beyond, who died in 2020
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
Posted Dec 28, 2020
Among those we lost in 2020 (clockwise): Retired Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant, Sisters of the Road co-founder Genny Nelson, former Trail Blazers executive Harry Glickman and sexuality expert Shere Hite.
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2020 has been a rough year, and we’ve lost far too many people along the way.
Below The Oregonian/OregonLive offers up a list, far from exhaustive, of notable Oregonians and other Americans who died in the past 12 months, from the beloved to the notorious. (We also include a few dearly departed from foreign locales who made an impact in the United States).
Ennio Morricone, noted film composer, defining the Spaghetti Western soundtrack.
Four of the top five Charlie Daniels Band headlining grosses came from his long-running Volunteer Jam, including the Charlie Daniels 80th Birthday Volunteer Jam, Nov. 30, 2016 in Nashville, which drew 17,007 fans and included Chris Stapleton, Kid Rock and Luke Bryan. The performance grossed $657,921 and followed Daniels’ induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame just six weeks earlier.
Mitch Slater partnered with Ron Delsener to form Delsener / Slater Presents in 1988 before the company was acquired by SFX Entertainment in 1996, and later acquired Metropolitan Entertainment Group. Slater became a key figure at the core of SFX Entertainment’s business, being elevated to executive vice president and continuing to work with SFX head Robert Sillerman after he sold his business to Clear Channel Entertainment, the precursor company to what is now Live Nation.