Gerard Smith (musician)

Biography

Gerard Anthony Smith (September 20, 1974 – April 20, 2011) was an American musician and member of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio. He recorded an album of original music as A Rose Parade with Shannon Funchess of Light Asylum and also produced music with Midnight Masses and The Stationary Set. He died at age 36 from lung cancer. As a self-taught musician who played the piano, bass, organ, classical guitar, and sitar, he studied fine arts and Art History at the Fashion Institute of Technology and SUNY Purchase. Smith was busking in a Brooklyn subway when he was recruited by TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe in 2003. Smith recalled in an interview: I saw Tunde in the movie Jump Tomorrow on IFC. And I was super addicted to film at that time.

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