50 years old drummer for rock band Foo Fighters Taylor Hawkins has died.Hawkins has been the drummer for Foo Fighters for 25 of the band’s 28 years, having replaced original drummer William Goldsmith in 1997. Hawkins was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1972, and grew up in Laguna Beach, California. Before winning his first large gig as a drummer for Canadian vocalist Sass Jordan, he was a member of the small Southern California band Sylvia. He then spent the mid-1990s as Alanis Morissette’s touring drummer before being recruited to join the Foo Fighters by Grohl. Grohl is dealing with the death of a close bandmate for the second time. When Kurt Cobain died in 1994, Grohl was Nirvana’s drummer. Hawkins is survived by his three children and wife Alison.
There were no immediate details on Hawkins’ death, but the band said in a statement that it was a “tragic and untimely loss.” The Foo Fighters were on tour in South America at the time. They performed at a festival in San Isidro, Argentina on Sunday and were set to perform at another in Bogotá, Colombia on Friday night. According to the Colombian newspaper El Espectador, Hawkins was discovered dead in his hotel room in Bogota.
