Country music singer Luke Bell has died after he was reported missing over a week ago. He was 32.
Bell was found dead in Tucson, Arizona, on Monday, near where he was reported missing on Aug. 20, the Tucson Police Department told the New York Post . Authorities have not yet confirmed his cause of death.
Bells friend Matt Kinman, also a country singer, confirmed the news to music website Saving Country Music .
Born in Kentucky, and raised in Wyoming, Bell got his start playing in a band in a local bar, according to the sites obituary.
He was one of the most authentic and magnetizing artists to grace the country music art form in the modern era, it read. And those who knew Luke Bell, they know this assessment is in no way hyperbole or flattery.
As troubled as he was talented, Luke Bell nonetheless left his mark. And through the gift of his music, Luke Bell leaves the Earth and more pleasant place than he found it, the obituary continued.
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Bell released his eponymous debut album in 2012. Spotify described his sound as a little bit honky tonk and a little bit Texas, with healthy dashes of Bakersfield and vintage Nashville.
After his second album, Dont Mind If I Do, was released in 2014, he opened for acts like Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam and Hank Williams Jr.
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