{"id":934,"date":"2025-04-04T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/sad-news-co-founder-of-tony-toni-tone-and-oakland-native-dwayne-wiggins-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:19:06","slug":"sad-news-co-founder-of-tony-toni-tone-and-oakland-native-dwayne-wiggins-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/sad-news-co-founder-of-tony-toni-tone-and-oakland-native-dwayne-wiggins-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad News: Co-Founder of Tony! Toni! Ton\u00e9! and Oakland Native D&#8217;Wayne Wiggins Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 id=\"sad-news-co-founder-of-tony-toni-tone-and-oakland-native-dwayne-wiggins-passes-away-phXkgNPMNJ\">Sad News: Co-Founder of Tony! Toni! Ton\u00e9! and Oakland Native D&#8217;Wayne Wiggins Passes Away<\/h1>\n<h2 id=\"who-was-dwayne-wiggins-phXkgNPMNJ\">Who was D&#8217;Wayne Wiggins?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-founder of R&amp;B group Tony! Toni! Ton\u00e9!<\/li>\n<li>Born and raised in Oakland, California<\/li>\n<li>Known for his soulful guitar playing and smooth vocals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"what-happened-phXkgNPMNJ\">What happened?<\/h2>\n<p>D&#8217;Wayne Wiggins passed away at the age of 58 on September 2, 2021.<\/p><div id=\"snapl-id1238096204\" class=\"snapl-idcontent snapl-identity-placement\"><div class=\"snapl-idadlabel\">Ads<\/div><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/aicopilotx.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-185\" src=\"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/copilotx250x50-3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aicopilotx.com\">Automate Your Business with AI<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"what-was-his-impact-phXkgNPMNJ\">What was his impact?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Helped shape the sound of 90s R&amp;B with Tony! Toni! Ton\u00e9!<\/li>\n<li>Produced hits such as &#8220;Feels Good&#8221; and &#8220;Anniversary&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Influenced many artists in the R&amp;B and hip-hop community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"how-are-fans-reacting-phXkgNPMNJ\">How are fans reacting?<\/h2>\n<p>Fans and fellow musicians are mourning the loss of Wiggins and sharing memories of his talent and kindness.<\/p><div id=\"snapl-id3100398990\" class=\"snapl-idcontent_2 snapl-identity-placement\"><div class=\"snapl-idadlabel\">Ads<\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/rumiawards.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7270\" src=\"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/Rumi-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/Rumi-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/Rumi-150x150.jpeg 150w, 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Toni! Ton\u00e9! and beloved native. Rest in peace, music legend. #RIPDWayneWiggins&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/fcb113.png",1024,1024,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/fcb113-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/fcb113-300x300.png",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/fcb113-768x768.png",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/fcb113.png",640,640,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/fcb113.png",1024,1024,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/fcb113.png",1024,1024,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/fcb113-240x172.png",240,172,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"SnapLive News","author_link":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"\"Oakland mourns the loss of D'Wayne Wiggins, co-founder of Tony! 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Rest in peace, music legend. #RIPDWayneWiggins\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snaplive.news\/bay-area-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}