Their guitarist Dire Straits, Jack Sonnydied at age 68 years old. The musician’s death was announced in an emotional post from the band posted online.
Jack Sonni’s cause of death has not been released. He was known as “the other guitarist” during the band’s Brothers in Arms period, named after their fifth album, released in 1985.
Sonni was working at New York’s famed Rudy’s Music Stop guitar store in the 1970s when he first met Dire Straits co-founders, David and Mark Knopfler. He played with the band on the iconic 1985 Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium, raising money for the famine in Ethiopia.
Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, after working with Dire Straits, Jack contributed to a number of other musicians’ projects, but ended his professional music career when his twin daughters were born in 1988.
He began a second career as marketing executive, first at Seymour Duncan and then at Rivera Guitar Amplifiers, followed by several years as director of marketing communications at Line 6, a manufacturer of digital technology products for musicians. In 2001, it did vice president of marketing communications for Guitar Center.
In recent years, according to dailymail.co.ukhad also returned to playing music on a regular basis with his band, The Leisure Class.
Source: News Beast
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