Steve Harwell facts for kids
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Steve Harwell
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Harwell performing with Smash Mouth in 2013
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| Birth name | Steven Scott Harwell |
| Born | January 9, 1967 Santa Clara, California, U.S. |
| Origin | San Jose, California, U.S. |
| Died | September 4, 2023 (aged 56) Boise, Idaho, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1988–2021 |
Steven Scott Harwell (January 9, 1967 – September 4, 2023) was an American singer. Harwell served as the lead vocalist and frontman for the rock band Smash Mouth from its foundation in 1994 until his retirement in 2021. Before his retirement, he and bassist Paul De Lisle were the only two constant members of the band.
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Career
Greg Camp formed Smash Mouth with Harwell, Kevin Coleman, and Paul De Lisle. Harwell was previously a rapper in F.O.S. Harwell was a featured cast member in the sixth season of the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life in 2006. He has appeared on other television and radio shows, as well as making a cameo in the 2001 film Rat Race. He is best known for the song "All Star".
Harwell also performed two songs, "Beside Myself" and "Everything Just Crazy", for the 2013 South Korean-Chinese animated film Pororo, The Racing Adventure. During a performance with Smash Mouth in Urbana, Illinois, on August 27, 2016, Harwell collapsed on stage and was taken by ambulance to a hospital. The band completed the concert without him, with De Lisle taking over on vocals.
Personal life
Harwell had a son named Presley who died in July 2001 from acute lymphocytic leukemia at the age of six months; subsequently, Harwell created a medical research fund in Presley's name.
Death
On September 3, 2023, Harwell's representative reported that he was in hospice care for final stage chronic liver failure, and that he only had "few days to live". Harwell died the next day at his home in Boise, Idaho, at the age of 56.
See also
In Spanish: Steven Harwell para niños
