First Lady Jill Biden Mourns the Death of Taylor Hawkins

The late Taylor Hawkins earned posthumous recognition from the household of the best workplace within the land final week (March 26) when U.S. First Woman Dr. Jill Biden honored the Foo Fighters drummer after his surprising demise at age 50 final Friday (March 25).

The acknowledgment from Biden confirmed the attain of the drummer’s expertise, plus the affect his demise made on popular culture at giant. In her assertion, the First Woman praised Hawkins’ life and work, and he or she supplied condolences to his family members and supporters.

“A ferocious drummer, devoted father, and expensive good friend gone far too quickly,” Biden remarked of the musician.

“Sending like to Taylor Hawkins’ household and followers of the Foo Fighters in every single place,” she added.

Biden wasn’t alone in her tribute. Memorials from throughout the music world proved the drummer’s significance to rock. Wanting again on Dave Grohl’s previous phrases about Hawkins, the Foo Fighters chief as soon as stated it was “love at first sight” when he met the musician.

However Hawkins wasn’t only a Foo Fighter. Earlier than his Foos profession, he performed drums with Alanis Morissette and Sass Jordan, amongst others. Later, he led Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders, Chevy Metallic, The Birds of Devil, and he co-founded the supergroup NHC.

Prior to now, the Foo Fighters have supported the Democrats, the political get together to which Biden belongs. The Foos performed the 2012 DNC earlier than a speech from then President Barack Obama.

In a 2017 interview, Hawkins stated the U.S. “acquired what we deserve” relating to the president after Obama, Donald Trump, President Joe Biden’s opponent in 2020. He called Trump a “symptom of a era of reality-TV-obsessed, selfie-obsessed, Fb-obsessed, tweet-obsessed, self-obsessed individuals.”

The reason for Hawkins’ demise is being decided after he was discovered lifeless in his resort room in Bogota, Colombia, on Friday, simply earlier than the Foos had been to play town’s Pageant Estereo Picnic. A preliminary toxicology report confirmed Hawkins had 10 totally different substances in his system on the time of his demise.

First Woman Dr. Jill Biden Honors Late Foo Fighters Drummer Taylor Hawkins