LONDON – Jamal Edwards, the founding father of British on-line music platform SBTV which helped launch the careers of stars together with Ed Sheeran, died on Sunday after a sudden sickness, his mom mentioned.
Edwards, 31, based SBTV aged 15 and went on to obtain an MBE in 2014 for his companies to music. He was additionally an envoy to the Princes Belief, the charity based by inheritor to the throne Prince Charles.
“It's with the deepest heartache that I affirm that my lovely son Jamal Edwards handed away yesterday morning after a sudden sickness,” his mom Brenda mentioned in an announcement posted on Twitter by Unfastened Ladies, a tv programme she offered.
“Jamal was an inspiration to myself and so many. Our love for him lives on, his legacy lives on.”
SBTV describes itself on its YouTube channel as a number one youth broadcaster offering a platform to find rising artists. The channel has over 1,000,000 subscribers and its movies have been considered greater than 800 million occasions because it was launched in 2006.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Prince Charles have been amongst those that paid tribute to Edwards.
“British music and leisure has misplaced considered one of its brightest stars. My ideas are with Jamal’s family members at this terribly unhappy time,” Khan mentioned on Twitter.
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