Gerard Smith of TV on the Radio dies Evening.

NEW YORK - TV on the Radio bassist Gerard Smith died Wednesday of lung cancer, the keep said in an pronouncement on its website. He was 36. Smith's expiration comes a teeny over a month after it was announced that he was battling the disease. At the time, the strip said Smith had fitness insurance, great medical be concerned and had already seen "dramatic results.

" However, Smith was powerless to sign the combo on globe-trot as they promoted their continue album, "Nine Types of Light." In a fresh question period with The Associated Press, the lie down of his bandmates declined to confab about his disease out of appreciate for Smith. "We are very sad to asseverate the death of our beloved friend and bandmate, Gerard Smith, following a heroic bickering against lung cancer," the band said on the website. "We will skip him terribly.

" The corps canceled its concerts for the next few days, starting Wednesday in Detroit. Smith had described himself as a underpass artiste in New York when he was recruited for the band, who have been hailed by critics for high-handed albums have a fondness "Return to Cookie Mountain" and "Dear Science." Smith recalled in a 2008 sound out with The Brooklyn Rail, a chronicle on the arts, wirepulling and culture, how principal songbird Tunde Adebimpe discovered him and added him to the band.

"I dictum Tunde in the motion picture 'Jump Tomorrow' on IFC. And I was wonderful addicted to steam at that time. A year later, I was playing on the underground party line here, at the Bedford stop, and he kept giving me money. And then I was like, I perceive this guy.

Then it absolutely clicked, and I said, 'Dude you were in that movie! I loved that movie!' That membrane had meant a lot to me, especially because there was a baneful actor that wasn't in the ghetto, and there weren't a lot of politics," he said. "He was being a sensitive being and not only a ebon actor. And that meant a lot to me." In that same interview, Adebimpe told Smith: "What you were playing was just so far and above what was normally down there that I can't even recite it. I was just like, that dude's awesome." Smith grew up in Long Island, N.Y., and deliberate sheer arts in dear day-school but would later abandon it.

Video:

Respected author post: there