{"id":155013,"date":"2021-01-15T05:45:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T02:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-york-dolls-guitarist-sylvain-sylvain-dead-at-69\/"},"modified":"2021-01-15T05:45:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T02:45:15","slug":"new-york-dolls-guitarist-sylvain-sylvain-dead-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-york-dolls-guitarist-sylvain-sylvain-dead-at-69\/","title":{"rendered":"#New York Dolls Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain Dead at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#New York Dolls Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain Dead at 69<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain died on Wednesday of cancer. The news<\/a> was confirmed on his official Facebook page<\/a> with a tribute penned by Lenny Kaye. He was 69.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In April 2019, Sylvain revealed that he had been battling cancer for the past year. He launched a GoFundMe<\/a> campaign in the hopes to cover medical costs related to his treatment.<\/p>\n

Sylvain Sylvain was born Sylvain Mizrahi in Cairo. Sylvain\u2019s family fled Egypt after facing anti-Semitism, winding up in New York after a brief residence in Paris. He joined the New York Dolls in 1972 after befriending the band\u2019s original drummer Billy Murcia at his Queens school. Sylvain contributed guitar, piano, and vocals on the Dolls\u2019 first two albums, 1973\u2019s New York Dolls<\/em> and 1974\u2018s Too Much Too Soon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Sylvain embarked on a solo career following his tenure in New York Dolls, releasing his eponymous debut album in 1979. He recorded numerous albums as a solo artist up until the late 1990s. When the New York Dolls reunited, Sylvain app<\/a>eared on their final albums One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This<\/em> (2006), Cause I Sez So<\/em> (2009), and Dancing Backward in High Heels<\/em> (2011).<\/p>\n

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