NEW YORK (AP) — Wayne Osmond, a singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-selling household act The Osmonds, who had been identified for such Seventies teen hits as “One Unhealthy Apple,” “Yo-Yo” and “Down By the Lazy River,” has died. He was 73.
Sibling Merrill Osmond posted on his Fb web page that Wayne died this week at a Salt Lake Metropolis hospital after struggling a “large stroke.”
“I’ve by no means identified a person that had extra humility. A person with completely no guile,” Merrill wrote. “A person that was fast to forgive and had the power to indicate unconditional like to everybody he ever met.”
Wayne Osmond was the fourth oldest of 9 youngsters raised in a Mormon family in Ogden, Utah, and the second oldest among the many musical performers. The siblings’ profession started within the Fifties when Wayne, Alan, Merrill and Jay sang as a barbershop quartet.
Their reputation grew within the Nineteen Sixties after being supported by singer Andy Williams, they usually peaked as a quintet within the early Seventies, with youthful brother Donny Osmond the breakout star. “One Unhealthy Apple” and different songs had been usually in comparison with the music of The Osmonds’ contemporaries, the Jackson 5, and Donny was positioned because the white counterpart to the Jacksons’ lead singer, Michael Jackson.
The Osmonds’ reputation light by the mid-Seventies, though Donny and Marie Osmond each loved profitable careers as solo performers and as a brother-sister duo.
Within the Nineteen Eighties, Wayne Osmond regrouped with Alan, Merrill and Jay as a rustic act and had a handful of hits, together with “I Suppose About Your Lovin.’”
However within the mid-Nineties he was recognized with a mind tumor and misplaced a lot of his listening to from the surgical procedure and therapy. A stroke in 2012 left him unable to play guitar.
“I’ve had a beautiful life. And you understand, having the ability to hear shouldn’t be all that it’s cracked as much as be, it actually isn’t,” he informed the Deseret Information in 2018. “My favourite factor now could be to care for my yard. I flip my listening to aids off, deaf as a doorknob, tune every part out, it’s actually joyful.”
Wayne Osmond married Kathlyn White in 1974. They’d 5 youngsters.
This story has been up to date to appropriate that Wayne Osmond was the fourth oldest sibling, not the second oldest
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