{"id":31164,"date":"2017-09-09T07:39:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T07:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=31164"},"modified":"2017-09-09T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T07:39:32","slug":"country-stars-don-williams-and-troy-gentry-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/country-stars-don-williams-and-troy-gentry-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Stars Don Williams and Troy Gentry Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

The music industry is mourning the deaths of US country music stars Don Williams and Troy Gentry, who both died on the same day. Award-winning Country music legend Don Williams, nicknamed \u201cThe Gentle Giant,\u201d passed away on Friday (Sept. 8) after a short illness. died after a short illness.<\/p>\n

A press release from the singer’s PR team confirmed his death “after a short illness,” saying that funeral arrangements are pending.
\nWilliams who began his solo career in 1971, had a long music career amassing 17 number one country hits before retiring in 2016.<\/p>\n

His songs top songs included Gypsy Woman and Tulsa Time, You’re My Best Friend, I Believe in You and Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good and Listen to the radio. In 2010, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

During his performances, he often walked onstage carrying a cup of coffee, sat on a barstool, sang and chatted amiably with the audience.<\/p>\n

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Troy Gentry of music group Montgomery Gentry was just hours away from going on stage when a helicopter he was traveling on crashed<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The news of Williams\u2019 death comes as Troy Gentry died Friday in a helicopter crash.<\/p>\n

Gentry, 50, was killed hours before the band was set to hit the stage \u2014 a second home for the singer and guitarist from Kentucky.<\/p>\n

The helicopter carrying Gentry crashed in a wooded area near the Flying W Airport in Medford, New Jersey, around 1pm local time Friday. Montgomery Gentry was supposed to perform Friday in Medford.<\/p>\n

Montgomery Gentry had success on the country charts and country radio in the 2000s, scoring No. 1 hits with \u201cRoll With Me,\u201d \u201cBack When I Knew It All,\u201d \u201cLucky Man,\u201d \u201cSomething to Be Proud Of\u201d and \u201cIf You Ever Stop Loving Me.\u201d Some of the songs even cracked the Top 40 of the pop charts.<\/p>\n

\u201cTroy Gentry\u2019s family wishes to acknowledge all of the kind thoughts and prayers, and asks for privacy at this time,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The music industry is mourning the deaths of US country music stars Don Williams and Troy Gentry, who both died on the same day. Award-winning Country music legend Don Williams, nicknamed \u201cThe Gentle Giant,\u201d passed away on Friday (Sept. 8) after a short illness. died after a short illness. A press release from the singer’s PR team confirmed his death “after a short illness,” saying that funeral arrangements are pending. Williams who began his solo career in 1971, had a long music career amassing 17 number one country hits before retiring in 2016. His songs top songs included Gypsy Woman and Tulsa Time, You’re My Best Friend, I Believe in You and Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":31166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}