Heavy D’s funeral details released

The family has announced plans for Heavy D’s Funeral.

After the unexpected and tragic death of Heavy D, the family has announced funeral plans.

Heavy D’s Funeral details

There will be a public viewing on Thursday, November 17th, open to anyone who wishes to pay their respects from noon to 6pm.

A private wake will follow that evening. Heavy D will be laid to rest, Friday November 18th, at the historic Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, NY, where he was raised.

Heavy D, who was born Dwight Arrington Myers, died Tuesday in the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after collapsing on the walkway outside his Beverly Hills home, according to law enforcement sources.

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office is investigating the cause of death.

He was 44 years old.

About Heavy

Dwight Myers came on the scene in the late 1980s as the frontman of the hip-hop group Heavy D and the Boyz, which he formed with neighborhood friends Eddie F (Edward Ferrel), G-Whiz (Glen Parrish) and Trouble T-Roy (Troy Dixon).

The Boyz were the first group signed to burgeoning Uptown Records, and their 1987 debut, “Living Large,” reached the No. 10 spot on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Their 1989 album “Big Tyme” went platinum and yielded the hits “We Got Our Own Thang,” “Somebody For Me” and “Gyrlz, They Love Me.”

They went on to release three more albums and recorded the theme songs for the TV shows “In Living Color” and “MADtv” before Myers delved on a solo career.

Born May 24, 1967, in Jamaica, Myers was the youngest of six children. His mother Eulah, a nurse, and father, Clifford, a film technician, moved the family to Mount Vernon, N.Y., when he was young.

He found success in the music industry despite having dropped out of school after the eighth grade. Myers garnered praise for his radio-friendly, playful flows and was embraced as an unlikely sex symbol by female fans who called him a “big teddy bear.”

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