{"id":117465,"date":"2024-04-08T18:01:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/08\/firehouse-vocalist-c-j-snare-dead-at-64\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T18:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:01:50","slug":"firehouse-vocalist-c-j-snare-dead-at-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/08\/firehouse-vocalist-c-j-snare-dead-at-64\/","title":{"rendered":"FireHouse vocalist C.J. Snare dead at 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-08\/G_firehouse_040824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Gary Miller\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>FireHouse<\/strong> vocalist<strong> C.J. Snare<\/strong> died Friday, April 5, at age 64.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FireHouseMusic\/posts\/946617750166705\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> post on Sunday, April 7, the &#8220;Love of a Lifetime&#8221; outfit shared, &#8220;It is with great sorrow we are letting the world know we have lost our brother: CJ Snare, the rock and roll warrior, lead vocalist, and a founding member of Firehouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The band adds that they&#8217;re in &#8220;complete shock,&#8221; noting that Snare had been on track to return to touring in the summer after undergoing surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CJ was was arguably one of the best vocal talents of a generation, touring the world with Firehouse non stop the past 34 years,&#8221; the post continues. &#8220;&#8216;Reach for the Sky&#8217; CJ! You will be forever missed by family, friends, fans and your band mates. You&#8217;re singing with the angels now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Snare joined FireHouse in 1987 and sang on all of their albums. The group scored Hot 100 hits in the early &#8217;90s with &#8220;Love of a Lifetime&#8221; and &#8220;When I Look into Your Eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Miller\/Getty Images FireHouse vocalist C.J. Snare died Friday, April 5, at age 64. In a Facebook post on Sunday, April 7, the &#8220;Love of a Lifetime&#8221; outfit shared, &#8220;It is with great sorrow we are letting the world know we have lost our brother: CJ Snare, the rock and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/08\/firehouse-vocalist-c-j-snare-dead-at-64\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,425,430,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}