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\n\tWayne Lewis<\/a> \u2014 a founding member of the R&B band Atlantic Starr<\/a> who sang vocals, performed the keyboard and penned hits like \u201cAlways\u201d and \u201cSecret Lovers\u201d \u2014 has died, the group introduced on social media.<\/p>\n \n\tA reason for loss of life was not revealed.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s with great sadness we have to post the passing of Wayne Lewis on June 5, 2025,\u201d Atlantic Starr wrote in an announcement on Facebook<\/a>. \u201cplease keep the family in your prayers and respect there [sic] privacy #waynelewis<\/a> #restinpeace<\/a> #flyhigh<\/a> Sunrise 4\/13\/1957 Sunset 6\/5\/2025 #restinpeaceWayne<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe White Plains, NY-based band was based in 1976 by Wayne Lewis and his two brothers \u2014 David Lewis (vocalist and guitarist) and Jonathan Lewis (keyboardist and trombonist) \u2014 in addition to drummer Porter Carroll Jr., bassist Clifford Archer and percussionist-flutist Joseph Phillips. Early members additionally included lead singer Sharon Bryant (later changed by Barbara Weathers), trumpeter William Sudderth and saxophonist Damon Rentie (changed afterward by Koran Daniels).<\/p>\n \n\tThroughout the late \u201970s and early \u201980s, Atlantic Starr scored quite a lot of hits on the R&B charts, together with \u201cCircles\u201d off of the 1982 album Brilliance<\/em>, which marked the group\u2019s first single to hit the Billboard<\/em> Hot 100. Later tracks, like \u201cAlways,\u201d peaked at No. 1 on the coveted chart, whereas 1992\u2019s \u201cMasterpiece\u201d topped at No. 3. <\/p>\n \n\tFirst signing to A&M, the group then moved over to Warner Bros. Records, having trimmed right down to a quintet with the three Lewis brothers, Phillips and Weathers by 1987. Following the smash success of \u201cAlways,\u201d Weathers left to pursue a solo profession and was changed with quite a lot of different feminine vocalists. In 1992, the Atlantic Starr members appeared as themselves and carried out on an episode of daytime cleaning soap Another World.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tWayne Lewis and David Lewis are credited with writing a majority of the band\u2019s songs, and the group\u2019s most up-to-date album, Metamorphosis<\/em>, was launched in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Wayne Lewis \u2014 a founding member of the R&B band Atlantic Starr who sang vocals, performed the keyboard and penned hits like \u201cAlways\u201d and \u201cSecret Lovers\u201d \u2014 has died, the group introduced on social media. A reason for loss of life was not revealed. \u201cIt\u2019s with great sadness we have to post the passing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11690,4570,1944,7207],"class_list":{"0":"post-144762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-atlantic","9":"tag-founder","10":"tag-singer","11":"tag-starr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}