Root Boy Slim

(Wikipedia) Root Boy Slim (born Foster MacKenzie III on July 9, 1945 in Asheville, North Carolina - died June 8 1993) was an American singer-songwriter who attended Yale University, and afterward settled in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., gaining fame as the frontman for the band "Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band".
He died in his sleep in his home in Orlando, Florida at the age of 47, and is buried in Fletcher, North Carolina. He was inducted into the Washington Area Music Association Hall of Fame in 2004. Continued