{"id":23412,"date":"2025-07-20T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/23412\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:45:08","slug":"former-lead-singer-of-grammy-nominated-music-group-dies-at-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/23412\/","title":{"rendered":"Former lead singer of Grammy-nominated music group dies at 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; Robbie Pardlo, the former lead singer of the R&amp;B group City High, has died at the age of 46. <\/p>\n<p>Pardlo passed away on Thursday, surrounded by friends and family in Willingboro, N.J., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/07\/18\/robbie-pardlo-city-high-singer-dead-46\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/07\/18\/robbie-pardlo-city-high-singer-dead-46\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TMZ reported.<\/a> The cause of death has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Pardlo rose to fame with City High, a group he formed in 1999 with classmates Claudette Ortiz and Ryan Toby. The trio signed with Wyclef Jean\u2019s label, Booga Basement, and released their self-titled debut album, which featured the 2001 hits &#8220;What Would You Do?&#8221; and &#8220;Caramel&#8221; featuring Eve. Their success earned them a Grammy nomination for Best R&amp;B Performance by a Duo or Group in 2002, but the group disbanded in 2003. <\/p>\n<p>He was later a member of R&amp;B quartet First Take.<\/p>\n<p>Pardlo struggled with alcoholism, which he said developed after City High split. <\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Anika, and two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; Robbie Pardlo, the former lead singer of the R&amp;B group City High, has died at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[21029,21027,236,21024,88,21026,216,21025,21023,21028],"class_list":{"0":"post-23412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-21029","9":"tag-alcoholism","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-city-high","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-grammy-nomination","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-rb-group","16":"tag-robbie-pardlo","17":"tag-willingboro"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}