Foo Fighters drummer, and Fort Worth native, Taylor Hawkins dead at 50
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who was a Fort Worth native, died Friday, the band announced on social media.
“The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” the band shared on Facebook and Twitter. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever. Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family, and we ask that their privacy be treated with the upmost respect in this unimaginably difficult time.”
Hawkins was 50. No further details regarding Hawkins’ cause of death were available.
The band was on tour in South America, scheduled to perform Friday in Bogota, Colombia, and Saturday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, before traveling back to the U.S. for tour dates in late April.
The Associated Press reported that police vehicles, an ambulance and fans gathered outside the hotel in northern Bogota where Hawkins was believed to have been staying Friday night.
The Bogota municipal government issued a statement Saturday that the city’s emergency center had received a report of a patient with “chest pain” and sent an ambulance, though a private ambulance had already arrived at the hotel.
“It was a band I grew up with. This leaves me empty,” Juan Sebastian Anchique, 23, told the AP as he mourned Hawkins outside the hotel.
Hawkins was born in 1972 in Fort Worth and was raised in Laguna Beach, California. He joined Foo Fighters in 1997.
He’s survived by his wife, Alison, and their three children.
This story was originally published March 26, 2022 at 7:09 AM.
