{"id":515324,"date":"2026-03-10T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/515324\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:37:08","slug":"tommy-decarlo-who-became-the-longtime-singer-of-boston-after-a-myspace-tribute-dies-at-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/515324\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy DeCarlo, who became the longtime singer of Boston after a Myspace tribute, dies at 60"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tommy DeCarlo, who became the lead singer of classic rockers Boston<\/a> for nearly 20 years based on a Myspace<\/a> tribute to the band\u2019s original singer, has died.<\/p>\n

He was 60.<\/p>\n

DeCarlo\u2019s children, Annie, Talia and Tommy Jr., said in posts on his Facebook and Instagram pages that their father, who had been struggling for months with brain cancer, died Monday. They said, \u201cHe fought with incredible strength and courage right up until the very end.\u201d <\/p>\n

Brad Delp, the original singer of the band that was founded in 1975 and had hits including \u201cMore Than a Feeling\u201d and \u201cPeace of Mind,\u201d died in 2007.<\/p>\n

DeCarlo, then a 43-year-old working at a Home Depot in North Carolina, wrote, sang and recorded a tribute song to Delp. He posted that song along with a few Boston covers to his Myspace page and sent the link to the band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy DeCarlo, who became the lead singer of classic rockers Boston for nearly 20 years based on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-515324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515324","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=515324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}