Springsteen keyboardist Danny Federici dies at 58
Freshly House of York (Reuters) - Keyboardist Danny Federici, world Health Organization for iV decades played aboard rock star Bruce Springsteen as voice of the E Street Band and helped define his rollicking sound, has died of malignant melanoma. He was 58.
Federici's death at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Gist in New House of York on Th was announced on Springsteen's official Web site and the rocker postponed a pair of weekend concerts in Everglade State.
"Danny and I worked together for 40 years - he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard histrion and a pure cancel musician. I loved him real much ... we grew up together," Springsteen said on the Entanglement site.
Federici had suffered from malignant melanoma for trio geezerhood and finis played with the E Street Band at a concert in Capital of Indiana on March 20, delivering an piano accordion solo on the song "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)."
Like Springsteen, Federici was born in Fresh Jersey and played the squeeze box from an too soon eld, performing at parties and clubs and development an sake in wind and blues medicine.
He first joined Springsteen in the late sixties, when the isaac Merrit Singer songster wHO would get known as "The Gaffer" was still an unknown, and Federici's pipe organ, squeeze box and keyboard work was considered a key part of the E Street Band's touch sound on such songs as "Hungry Heart."
Nicknamed "Phantasm," he was often overshadowed onstage by the out-sized presence of sax player Clarence Clemons, merely on departure the band to seek discussion for his unwellness in November of last year, Federici was described by Springsteen as "single of the pillars of our auditory sensation."
When Springsteen put the E Street Band on respite during the 1990s to explore other projects, Federici recorded a solo jazz album titled "Flemington" after his Newly Jersey hometown. He released a second album, "Henry Sweet," in 2004.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Redaction by British shilling Tourtellotte)
