Imagine Dragons to honor Cornell at Billboard Awards
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Daniel Platzman, from left, Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, and Daniel Wayne Sermon of Imagine Dragons, winners of the BMI pop award for “I Bet My Life” arrive at the 64th annual BMI Pop Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. in 2016. Imagine Dragons will pay tribute to the late Chris Cornell in words at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday.
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Chris Cornell plays guitar during a portrait session at The Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills, Calif. in 2015. Cornell died May 18 after performing in Detroit the previous evening.
NEW YORK (AP) — Imagine Dragons will pay tribute to the late Chris Cornell in words at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday.
A spokeswoman for the show’s producers, dick clark productions, said today that the rock band will talk about how the Soundgarden and Audioslave singer influenced them before they hit the stage at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Authorities say Cornell hanged himself on May 18 after performing at a concert the evening of May 17 in Detroit. Cornell’s family said that without toxicology test results completed they don’t know what caused his death.
Cornell was a leader of the grunge movement with Seattle-based Soundgarden, with whom he gained critical and commercial acclaim. He also found success outside the band with his solo music and the band Temple of the Dog.
The 2017 Billboard Music Awards will air at 7 p.m. Sunday on KITV. Drake, Miley Cyrus, Cher, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Celine Dion and others will also perform during the awards show.
