Greg Lee, the co-lead vocalist of the long-running Los Angeles ska band Hepcat, died Tuesday, March 19, 2024. , the long-running Los Angeles ska band that emphasized the genre’s Jamaican roots over the punkier influences of ska’s second wave, died Tuesday, March 19. He was 53.
“He has been on life support in the ICU ever since and has not regained consciousness,” she continued. “The neurologist let us know his case is very rare and that the moment was swift. He did not suffer.” “We would pile into somebody’s old car and make the trek to some old record store just to get the chance to buy old Jamaican records,” he said. “We’d read the backs of the records and the liner notes and pass ’em all around the car on the ride home, just trying to learn as much about the music as we could.”
The Wiltern in Los Angeles turned its marquee into a memorial to Lee on Wednesday, writing on it: “Greg Lee, LA’s Hepcat. Thank you for the music. You’ll be missed.” Members of the Interrupters were fans of Hepcat before they formed the band. They were thrilled when in 2016 Lee agreed to join them on stage for a show at the Roxy, the band wrote on Instagram. A year ago, the Interrupters had Hepcat open for them for a show at the House of Blues in Anaheim.
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