Cars Lead Vocalist Ric Ocasek has Died

Richard Theodore Otcasek is known as Ric Ocasek who is an American singer, songwriter musician, record producer, painter and best known as the lead vocalist of rock band “Cars”, has died on Sunday, 15 September at the age of 75.
The singer found dead at his home in Manhattan at afternoon when the police received a call around 4 p.m. for an unconscious male at a townhouse on East 19th Street. The police went there and found the unconscious is the singer Ocasek who pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of death is not confirmed yet.
Ocasek grew up in Baltimore but spent much of his time as a young adult in the Midwest, attending college at Antioch College and Bowling Green State University. He dropped out of the university to pursue a career in music.
The singer made a great success as a founding member of the “Cars” recording numerous hit songs from 1978 to 1988. The Cars topped with 13 top-40 singles including Just What I Needed, Shake It Up, Good Times Roll and Drive.
The new wave movement got a kick-start from the band “Cars”.
The Cars broke up in 1988, but they reunited in 2010 to record an album, ‘Move Like This’. They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Ocasek likewise wound up known for delivering groups like Suicide, Bad Brains, and, during the 90s, Weezer, Bad Religion, No Doubt and Guided by Voices, among others.
His fans, actors and many others are paying tributes through social media to the singer.
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