![]() ![]() “Buzzy was recruited for the Navy Band in 1961 while still a senior in High School,” Linhart’s son Xeno David Rasmusson tells the Globe.”He enlisted while he was 17 with parental permission, attained GED type diploma so they didn’t have to wait until Spring graduation. Buzzy & Bette (Photo courtesy of Buzzy Linhart Music) Navy School of Music at 18 as a percussionist, accepted in spite of his 4-F Selective Service System classification (due to a visual defect). Linhart attended the historic Cleveland Music School Settlement as a teenager, and entered the U.S. By age seven he was adept at symphonic percussion he taught himself guitar and piano and he had begun mastering the vibraphone at ten years old. No cause of death was given, but Linhart had been in declining health since suffering a heart attack in 2018 that left him unable to perform.īorn William Charles Linhart in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to musician parents, Linhart grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and was a musical prodigy as a child. Linhart’s death was confirmed by his son, Xeno Rasmusson, to the New York Times. ![]() Folk troubadour Buzzy Linhart, a gifted songwriter and instrumentalist, passed away on Friday, February 13th, 2020 at the age of 76. ![]()
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