April 24, 2025
Town of Oakland will maintain a collection of tributes to honor the life and legacy of Tony! Toni! Toné! founding member D’Wayne Wiggins
Oakland, California, is coming collectively to rejoice the life and legacy of Tony! Toni! Toné! founding member D’Wayne Wiggins, a hometown hero who remained an area up till his dying.
In honor of his musical legacy and 30 years of cultural contributions, his daughter, Ilahn Wiggins, introduced a public remembrance will happen at Geoffrey’s Internal Circle on April 27.
“The Social gathering of the Century, I really like you, Dad,” she captioned her Instagram announcement. “We’re going to honor you and rejoice you the Actual D’wayne means 🎸
“Everyone seems to be invited,” she added. “I can’t wait to see all of your faces and listen to your loopy tales about my dad.”
Ilahn Wiggins advised KQED that the general public occasion, that includes reside music, will happen forward of a serious outside celebration honoring Wiggins, deliberate in collaboration with town of Oakland. That occasion can be held someday in Might.
Along with these memorial occasions, 150 college students from East Oakland elementary, center, and excessive faculties will carry out at Castlemont Excessive College April 24 as a part of the third Annual East Oakland Vocal Pageant & Group Useful resource Truthful, which features a tribute to Wiggins.
Wiggins died March 7. He was 64. His household introduced his dying on social media.
“Over the previous yr, he has been privately and courageously battling bladder most cancers,” the household wrote. “By means of this battle, he remained dedicated and current for his household, his music, his followers and his group.”
Wiggins made his mainstream musical debut within the late ’80s as a part of Tony! Toni! Toné!, which he co-founded alongside together with his brother, Raphael Saadiq, and their cousin, Christian Riley. The group skyrocketed when its 1993 album, Sons of Soul, went double platinum.
Tony! Toni! Toné! hit the street in 2023 for its “Simply Me and You” reunion tour. The group didn’t permit cell telephones or recordings on the reveals, however captured their very own footage, which can be utilized in an upcoming documentary about Wiggins’ profession, Saadiq revealed.
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