Leonard 'Hub' Hubbard, Co-Founder and Original Bassist of The Roots, Dies at 62

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writing, «My bro Hub…#Godspeed.»A post shared by The Roots (@theroots)Though Hubbard's wife, Stephanie Hubbard, told Philadelphia's 6ABC that he was energetic days before his death, he became unable to move the day before he died.

She took him to the hospital when things took a turn for the worse, but she was unable to stay with him due to COVID-19 restrictions.«I was called to the hospital,» she said. «They told me what had happened that he had passed.

I went to the hospital and was able to sit with him.»Hubbard had been battling cancer for more than a decade, after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in 2007, his widow said.He stopped touring with The Roots, with whom he recorded seven albums, after his.