Brian “Brizz” Gillis, one of the founding members of ’90s boy band LFO, died Wednesday. He was 47.

His former bandmate Brad Fischetti announced the news via LFO’s official Facebook page Thursday.

“Every story is made up of chapters. Some develop naturally. Some you have to cut up in your mind,” Fischetti wrote.

“The first two chapters of the LFO story lost a main character yesterday. Brian ‘Brizz’ Gillis passed away.”
Fischetti, 47, told fans he does not “have details” about what led to his friend’s death and acknowledged it “wouldn’t be [his] place to share them if [he] did,” adding, “I am really struggling to process this tragic loss.”

Fischetti admitted that his relationship with Gillis, who left the group a few years after its 1995 inception, was “complex.”

“It contained moments of great tribulation but also of great joy,” he wrote, saying he “learned a lot from [Gillis] about the business of music and how to put together and rock a show.