{"id":86851,"date":"2016-11-02T10:05:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T10:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/?p=86851"},"modified":"2016-11-02T10:24:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T10:24:34","slug":"bap-kennedy-passes-away-54-years-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/music\/bap-kennedy-passes-away-54-years-age-86851","title":{"rendered":"Bap Kennedy passes away at 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bap Kennedy has passed away at 54 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>The singer, who was brother to Brian Kennedy,\u00a0was battling with pancreas and bowel cancer before he died on Tuesday evening shortly after 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>The sad news was announced on Bap&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FBapKennedy%2Fposts%2F10154029580743008&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bap was extremely brave until the end,&#8221; the post read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to thank everybody for their kind messages of support over the past few months, these meant a lot of Bap and Brenda [his wife] and helped Bap stay positive throughout his illness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are also extremely grateful to all the staff at the Marie Curie hospice for their kindness and warmheartedness during his stay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the Belfast native took to Twitter to pay their respects.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I always wanted people to feel what I feel. The magic of music.&#8221; Bap Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RIPBap?src=hash\">#RIPBap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Humanismism (@humanismism) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/humanismism\/status\/793754038370119680\">November 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">RIP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bapkennedy\">@bapkennedy<\/a> xXXx Belfast and the World has lost a Great Talent ?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sioux Sue (@SueSioux) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SueSioux\/status\/793751408067616768\">November 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We enjoyed our gigs with the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bapkennedy\">@bapkennedy<\/a> very much. So sad to hear of his passing. What a wonderful artist and songwriter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cicero Buck (@CiceroBuck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CiceroBuck\/status\/793749881844269056\">November 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sending love to the very brave <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bapkennedy\">@bapkennedy<\/a> &amp; family as they deal with his passing. A wonderful artist &amp; human being. xx<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 My Girl The River (@mygirltheriver) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mygirltheriver\/status\/793749131772694529\">November 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">RIP Bap Kennedy. Irish music ledge.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BapKennedy?src=hash\">#BapKennedy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Guiney (@aguiney44) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aguiney44\/status\/793748754331496448\">November 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So sad about Bap Kennedy. Massive loss.He was one of the best to ever come out of Belfast. Will be sorely missed by us all.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Glover (@benglovermusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benglovermusic\/status\/793741788985122817\">November 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer is brother to Brian Kennedy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":86854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[67],"tags":[3793],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}