{"id":706209,"date":"2026-05-31T17:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/706209\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:50:43","slug":"child-musician-foster-sylvers-of-the-sylvers-dead-at-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/706209\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Musician Foster Sylvers of The Sylvers Dead at 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Foster Sylvers<br \/>\n                          The Sylvers Star Dead Amid Stage 4 Cancer Battle<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              May 31, 2026<br \/>\n                            10:05 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260531_6c684ee73ffd448eb7d6f04bdf4d2310\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:f67a600e-de8c-440d-a3a7-4192e8c90edd\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6c684ee73ffd448eb7d6f04bdf4d2310_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-Foster-Sylvers-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foster Sylvers, the standout child star of the 1970s family R&amp;B group The Sylvers, has died &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Foster&#8217;s brother, Leon Sylvers III, tells TMZ he died in hospice following a battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. More updates will come from their sister, Pat Sylvers.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260531_94ab17585e984cd292cd5d60659cbaf6\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:f67a600e-de8c-440d-a3a7-4192e8c90edd\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/94ab17585e984cd292cd5d60659cbaf6_md.jpg\" alt=\"sub-The-Sylvers-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sylvers skyrocketed to fame in the &#8217;70s with hits like &#8220;Fool&#8217;s Paradise, &#8220;Boogie Fever,&#8221; and &#8220;Hot Line.&#8221; The group had many iterations during their decade in the spotlight &#8230; the above photo shows James, Foster, Edmund, Ricky, and Angie.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Foster was a strong bassist who supported other artists as well, including Dynasty and Evelyn \u201cChampaign\u201d King. He put out solo work, too.<\/p>\n<p>His brother, Edmund, died in 2004 from lung cancer. They were both predeceased by brother Christopher, who was the youngest sibling and died in 1985 at age 18.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260531_968da68df60f49689fa8553d95deaa72\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:f67a600e-de8c-440d-a3a7-4192e8c90edd\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/968da68df60f49689fa8553d95deaa72_md.jpg\" alt=\"sub-Foster-Sylvers-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foster was 64.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foster Sylvers The Sylvers Star Dead Amid Stage 4 Cancer Battle Published May 31, 2026 10:05 AM PDT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-706209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}