Freddie Combs, whose soaring voice made him a fan favorite on television’s The X Factor music competition, has died at age 49.
He died Sept. 10 at a Florida hospital from kidney failure, his wife, Kay, said.Combs was a minister and performed in a wheelchair on The X Factor.
He battled health problems for years, and his wife told TMZ that he weighed as much as 920 pounds in 2009. He was featured in 2010 on a TLC show, Ton of Love, and manage to get his weight down to a relatively svelte 540 lbs., which is where he was at when he appeared on the second season of The X Factor.In his appearance, Combs’s version of Bette Midler’s “Wind Beneath My Wings” made him stand out, and judges Simon Cowell and L.A.
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