Maxi Jazz, lead singer of British band Faithless, dies at 65
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Maxi Jazz, lead singer for the British band Faithless, has died at age 65, a representative for the band confirmed to CBS News Saturday. The band also confirmed his death in posts to social media.
Jazz, whose real name was Maxwell Fraser, "died peacefully in his sleep" on Friday night, the band posted to its Twitter account. No other details about the death were immediately provided.
"He was a man who changed our lives in so many ways," the band wrote in a separate statement on Facebook. "He gave proper meaning and message to our music."
The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the social revolutions of the 1960s. As folk singer Pete Seeger put it in 1967, "A song isn't a speech; a song is not an editorial. If a song tries to be an editorial or a speech, often it fails as a song. The best songs tell a story, paint a picture, and leave the conclusion up actually to the listener."