Rock musician Eddie Van Halen dies in the United States at the age of 66
2020-10-06T22:50:45.086Z
Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and founder of the rock band Van Halen, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 65. The son of the musician announced this on social networks, specifying that Van Halen had been fighting cancer in recent years. The guitarist was born in the Netherlands in 1955. As a child, he and his parents moved to the United States, where in the early 1970s, together with his older brother, he created a group that later received the name Van Halen. The band recorded 12 albums and became one of the most famous and commercially successful rock bands of the 1980s era. Van Halen himself became famous not only as a virtuoso guitarist, but also as an inventor who patented several design solutions for this instrument.
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