TRAGIC END for this legend. 😭💔 With heavy hearts, we announce the passing. When you find out who he is, you will cry

Clean and determined, Negron rebuilt. Between 1995 and 2017, he released seven solo albums and returned to touring, proving that his voice and resilience were far from spent. In 1999, he laid bare his story in his bestselling memoir Three Dog Nightmare, chronicling his rise to fame, addiction, near-death experiences, and recovery with unflinching honesty.

Even as COPD gradually weakened his health, Negron continued performing well into his later years, stepping away from touring only when the COVID-19 pandemic made live shows unsafe.

Late in life, there was also reconciliation. After decades of estrangement, Negron and Danny Hutton reconnected last year, a reunion his publicist described as “a timely effort to exchange apologies and bury the hatchet.”

Through it all — the fame, the fallout, the comeback — family remained central.