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Chad Gilbert, lead guitarist for New Discovered Glory, died Sunday on the age of 45. A explanation for dying has not been disclosed, however Gilbert had been recognized with liver most cancers in 2021, and shared his mind most cancers prognosis six months in the past. “On the morning of September twentieth, Chad Everett Gilbert handed away peacefully in his sleep,” the band and his spouse Lisa Cimorelli wrote in a joint assertion on social media. “He left this world surrounded by family and friends and took his remaining breaths together with his spouse and mom by his aspect, simply as he wished.”
Gilbert was born in 1981, in Coral Springs, Florida. He was one of many founding members of New Discovered Glory whereas nonetheless in highschool. “We had been all of the weirdos with dyed hair, and we didn’t care who you had been or what you regarded like—you simply belonged,” Gilbert advised New Noise in March of this yr. “A few of us went to completely different excessive colleges in the identical metropolis, however we skilled the identical issues. We began this band as a result of we needed to maintain feeling like we belonged.” The band was signed to Drive-Through information when Gilbert was in junior yr. Their 2000 self-titled album reached #1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart. The band headlined Warped Tour in 2002, and their third album Sticks and Stones was licensed gold later that yr.
New Discovered Glory toured extensively with Blink-182 through the heyday of pop punk. Mark Hoppus tributed his pal after information of his passing. “Chad was the very best pal to each individual he met. Essentially the most constructive and inventive drive in any room he walked into,” he wrote on Instagram. “These previous years he fought his illness with the soul of a joyous, brave warrior.”
Gilbert married Eisley frontwoman Sherri DuPree in 2007. They divorced later that very same yr, after Gilbert met Paramore’s Hayley Williams. Gilbert and Williams had been collectively for ten years, marrying in 2016 and divorcing in 2017. Gilbert married Cimorelli, who’s in a vocal group together with her sisters, in 2020. They’ve a daughter, born in 2021.
“We’re devastated and shocked by how rapidly he left us, but so grateful for the way peacefully and easily he went,” his bandmates and spouse wrote. “The quantity of holiday makers that crowded the hospital foyer at a second’s discover is a testomony to how beloved and cherished Chad was, and at all times can be. He was a legendary musician, however his favourite accomplishment was being a husband and father. His greatest goals got here true.”
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