Chuck Negron, co-founder and singer of the band Three Dog Night, has died at the age of 83 at his residence in California. He had been experiencing heart failure in recent months and had suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for three decades.
In 1967, Negron founded Three Dog Night with Danny Hutton and Cory Wells, establishing themselves in the following years as one of the most important American rock bands of the late ’60s and early ’70s. Their debut album, from 1968, went platinum.
Negron had an unmistakable voice, immortalized in some of the band’s best-known songs, such as ‘Joy To The World’, ‘One (Is The Loneliest Number)’ or ‘Easy To Be Hard’. In total, Three Dog Night placed 21 songs in the Billboard Top 40 and 11 in the Top 10.
The rest of the band’s albums also enjoyed a certain commercial success, until the group’s dissolution in the mid-70s. Negron went through an unstable period around this time due to addictions, but managed to return to his musical path in the 90s with a solo career.
