{"id":165198,"date":"2025-06-08T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/08\/wayne-lewis-atlantic-starr-singer-and-founder-member-dies-at-68\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:04:44","slug":"wayne-lewis-atlantic-starr-singer-and-founder-member-dies-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/08\/wayne-lewis-atlantic-starr-singer-and-founder-member-dies-at-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Lewis, Atlantic Starr Singer and Founder Member, Dies at\u00a068"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tWayne Lewis, a founding member of the R&B group Atlantic Starr, has died at the age of 68.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe band confirmed his passing in a social media post on Friday (June 7), noting that the musician died on Thursday. No cause of death has been disclosed.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s with great sadness we have to post the passing of Wayne Lewis on June 5, 2025,\u201d Atlantic Starr wrote on Facebook<\/a>. \u201cPlease keep the family in your prayers and respect their privacy #waynelewis #restinpeace #flyhigh Sunrise 4\/13\/1957 Sunset 6\/5\/2025 #restinpeaceWayne.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLewis served as a vocalist and keyboardist for Atlantic Starr, which he co-founded in 1976 in White Plains, N.Y., alongside his brothers David Lewis (vocals, guitar) and Jonathan Lewis (keyboards, trombone), as well as drummer Porter Carroll Jr., bassist Clifford Archer and percussionist-flutist Joseph Phillips.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther early members included lead singer Sharon Bryant, trumpeter William Sudderth III and saxophonist Damon Rentie. Bryant and Rentie were later replaced by Barbara Weathers and Koran Daniels, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tAtlantic Starr became a fixture in R&B throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. The group signed with A&M Records (and later to Warner Bros. Records, among other labels), releasing their self-titled debut album in 1978, followed by their sophomore effort, Straight to the Point<\/em>, the next year.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe band achieved its first top 10 hit on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs chart with \u201cCircles\u201d (No. 2) from the 1982 album Brilliance<\/em>. Their biggest commercial success came in 1987 when \u201cAlways,\u201d from 1986\u2019s All in the Name of Love<\/em>, reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs.<\/p>\n

\n\tAtlantic Starr earned a total of three top 10 hits on the Hot 100 and 11 top 10s on Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs. \u201cMy First Love\u201d in 1989 was their only other No. 1 on the latter chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn recent years, Atlantic Starr continued to perform with Lewis and current members Jonathan Lewis, Melessa Pierce and Shammah Carter. The group\u2019s most recent album, Metamorphosis<\/em>, was released in 2017.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the announcement of Lewis\u2019 death, fans flooded social media with heartfelt tributes and condolences.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHis band gave my generation so much listening pleasure,\u201d one fan wrote. Another shared, \u201cNooooo I am devastated seeing this. My condolences to all family and friends.\u201d A third commenter added, \u201cA great songwriter. Atlantic Starr was better once he became leader. He will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wayne Lewis, a founding member of the R&B group Atlantic Starr, has died at the age of 68. The band confirmed his passing in a social media post on Friday (June 7), noting that the musician died on Thursday. No cause of death has been disclosed. Related Gone But Not Forgotten: Musicians We Lost in\u00a02025 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}