The rock band is famous for its hit song “All Star,” which appeared on the band’s 1999 album Astro Lounge.
Steve Harwellformer lead vocalist and co-founder of rock band Smash Mouthknown for her 1999 hit All Star, died Monday at his home in Boise, Idaho, just days after entering hospice care from complications of liver failure, the New York Times reported. She was 56 years old.
A Harwell manager confirmed to TMZ over the weekend that the singer “he has been battling alcohol abuse his entire life and has now reached the final stage of liver failure”.
Harwell is one of the founders of Smash Mouth, which formed in 1994. The rock band is best known for its hit song “All Star,” which appeared on the band’s 1999 album Astro Lounge. He was nominated for a Grammy Award and was heard in numerous films, including in the opening credits of the Oscar-nominated Shrek. “All Star” was also included on the soundtrack of the 1999 film Mystery Men.
“We had no idea how big ‘Shrek’ was going to be,” Harwell said in a 2019 interview with Rolling Stone.
Harwell also praised “Walkin’ on the Sun” and said that the song “changed music. It changed the way people listen to music,” he told Rolling Stone in the same 2019 interview. “It was so different, so unusual, and so special. It just had that sound that we created. Ask anyone who tried to copy us, you can’t. You just can’t.”
Other hit songs by the band included “Can’t Get Enough of You Baby” and “I’m a Believer”.
Steve Harwell outside of Smash Mouth
Harwell left the band in 2021, announcing his retirement due to ill health. Smash Mouth, who still performs, have released new singles, including “Underground Sun” this year, featuring a different lead singer.
Harwell was a featured cast member on the sixth season of the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life in 2006. She appeared on several other television shows, including Kim Possible, and also made a cameo appearance in the 2001 film Rat Race.
Harwell also performed two songs, “Beside Myself” and “Everything Just Crazy”, for the 2013 South Korean-Chinese animated film Pororo, The Racing Adventure.
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