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Rock star Nathan James revealed his father has been found dead after going missing in Colorado earlier this week. Instagram\/thatsnathanjames<\/p>\nRock star Nathan James revealed his father has been found dead after going missing in Colorado earlier this week.<\/p>\n
The \u201cLost Angeles\u201d singer, 36, announced that his father, Bill McGinley, 72, was found dead by local police on Friday, two days after he had gone missing during a morning bike ride in Louisville, Colorado, according to James social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s no longer with us. RIP to my dad. He was my best friend. I love him. I have been on an emotional rollercoaster like none other than I\u2019ve ever been through,\u201d James said in a video post to Instagram.<\/p>\n
Rock star Nathan James revealed his father has been found dead after going missing in Colorado earlier this week. Instagram\/thatsnathanjames<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t forget to tell the people you love that you f\u2013k with them and you respect them and you understand them and you are there for them,\u201d the \u201cEvil Eye\u201d rocker said.<\/p>\n
McGinley was found on a bike trail in the Coyote Run Open Space area, according to<\/a> Colorado Hometown Weekly<\/a>, which cited the Boulder County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n He was last seen at 8:40 a.m. Wednesday heading in the direction of Harper Lake and the Coyote Run trail, according to police.<\/p>\n He was riding a white Specialized pedal bicycle, wearing a dark blue shirt, black shorts, white socks and shoes.<\/p>\n McGinley was a former professor of Literacy Studies at the University of Colorado.<\/p>\n He also was known for founding an online performance poetry journal for high schoolers and doing literacy-based outreach and professional development programs, according to a<\/a> school biography<\/a>.<\/p>\n McGinley\u2019s cause or manner of death is not yet known.<\/p>\n His son James calls himself the \u201cKing of nu nu metal\u201d \u2014 a play on the hard-charging genre \u201cnu metal.\u201d<\/p>\n He is also a popular \u201crock photographer,\u201d snapping pics for artists like Avril Lavigne, Travis Barker, Post Malone, Lil\u2019 Wayne, and Machine Gun Kelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rock star Nathan James revealed his father has been found dead after going missing in Colorado earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,362,5731,75,98651,6790,24237],"class_list":["post-840593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-colorado","tag-entertainment","tag-missing-persons","tag-musicians","tag-rock-and-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840593","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=840593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Nathan](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rock-star-nathan-james-revealed-136162891.jpg\")
James\u2019 father disappeared during a bike ride. Instagram\/thatsnathanjames<\/p>\n