Brad Arnold, the lead vocalist of the famous American rock band 3 Doors Down and a Grammy Award nominee, has died at the age of 47, a few months after publicly announcing his diagnosis with stage four kidney cancer.
The news was confirmed on Saturday by the group itself through an official statement, which states that Arnold "passed away in his sleep, surrounded by his family and loved ones, after a strong battle with illness."
The band 3 Doors Down formed in 1995 in Mississippi and just four years later received their first Grammy nomination with the hit "Kryptonite," a song that Arnold had written at the age of 15 during a math class. The band's debut album, "The Better Life," went on to sell over 6 million copies globally.
Another Grammy nomination came in 2003 with the song "When I'm Gone," while 3 Doors Down became one of the most popular alternative rock bands of the early 2000s. In total, the band released six studio albums, the most recent being "Us and the Night," released in 2016.
