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A multi-genre music legend known as the Godfather of Neo Soul is dead at age 84. Roy Ayers, the jazz vibraphonist best known for the 1976 hit “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” died Tuesday in New York City, according to Variety. A cause of death was not announced, but his family said he had “a long illness.”

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