{"id":10965,"date":"2025-01-15T23:19:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/p-fluid-original-24-7-spyz-frontman-dead-at-64-in-apparent-homicide\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T23:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:19:30","slug":"p-fluid-original-24-7-spyz-frontman-dead-at-64-in-apparent-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/p-fluid-original-24-7-spyz-frontman-dead-at-64-in-apparent-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"P. Fluid, Original 24\/7 Spyz Frontman, Dead at 64 in Apparent Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Peter Forrest \u2014 who, as P. Fluid<\/a>, was lead singer and frontman of the pioneering Black rock band 24\/7 Spyz \u2014 has died at the age of 64. On Jan. 14th, Forrest\u2019s body was found badly beaten in the back of an abandoned ambulette bus in the Bronx. Forrest, who worked for the ambulette company as a driver, reportedly suffered \u201ctrauma around the body.\u201d The New York Police Department confirmed the death to Rolling Stone,<\/em> adding that the incident \u201cis now being investigated as a homicide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStarting in the Eighties, 24\/7 Spyz was part of a wave of bands determined to prove that Black musicians should not be restricted to hip-hop and R&B. The movement led to an organization, the Black Rock Coalition, and came to encompass Living Colour, Fishbone, 24\/7 Spyz, and many others.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn their first two albums, 1989\u2019s Harder Than You <\/em>and 1990\u2019s Gumbo Millennium,<\/em> the Spyz merged hardcore, metal and funk; their biggest hit was a remake of Kool and the Gang\u2019s \u201cJungle Boogie.\u201d P. Fluid, the band\u2019s first lead singer, was equally intense in both his stage moves and vocal style, which blended genres and would influence later rap-rockers. \u201cHe brought a sense of reckless abandon, but in a fun way,\u201d says 24\/7 Spyz guitarist Jimi Hazel. \u201cHe was climbing on the rafters. When he wanted to sing, he could sing. But he got more into screaming and shouting.\u201d In that regard, Hazel says, P. Fluid was on the same level with original Faith No More frontman Chuck Mosley and Fishbone\u2019s Angelo Moore. \u201cThose guys,\u201d says Hazel, \u201cset\u00a0 the template for what came next.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUnfortunately, tension between Forrest and the other members of 24\/7 Spyz grew while they were making their second album. According to Hazel, Forrest felt their label should focus on Forrest\u2019s politically minded songs. During the band\u2019s 1990 tour with Jane\u2019s Addiction, Forrest announced, onstage and to the shock of his bandmates, that he was leaving the band.<\/p>\n

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