A person has been arrested in reference to the killing of P. Fluid, the frontman of influential funk steel band 24-7 Spyz.
The singer – actual title Peter Forrest – was discovered badly crushed at the back of an deserted car within the Bronx, New York. He was pronounced useless on the scene on January 13 on the age of 64.
The car in query was a personal ambulette bus that Forrest drove for work, with the New York Police Division noting that he had suffered “trauma across the physique” and that they have been investigating his loss of life as a murder.
On Friday (January 17), Sharief Bodden, 29, was charged with Forrest’s killing. He now faces prices of homicide, manslaughter, legal possession of a managed substance and legal possession of a weapon.
24-7 Spyz have been a heavy steel band that P. Fluid co-founded in 1986. They gained a fanbase within the late ‘80s and ‘90s for his or her radical fusion of heavy steel, reggae, and arduous rock. This led to their prominence alongside funk steel bands akin to Residing Color and Religion No Extra.
Forrest was additionally a co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition, an artists’ collective and nonprofit organisation based in New York in 1985.
He recorded and wrote songs for the band on three of their albums: 1989’s ‘Tougher Than You’, 1990’s ‘Gumbo Millennium’, and 1995’s ‘Quickly Disconnected’. Per Rolling Stone, in 1990, Forrest had initially introduced his departure from the band at a Jane’s Habit live performance, the place they carried out as openers. He would return to the band to carry out on ‘Quickly Disconnected’ earlier than leaving once more.
On his personal, Forrest took half in short-lived tasks, together with a supergroup with Residing Color’s Corey Glover and former Fishbone member Angelo Moore. He additionally resurfaced within the 2010s with a goth rock undertaking named BlkVampires, by which he donned white make-up for his or her reveals.
