One of the most prominent musicians in the Minneapolis music scene has died.
Garry George “Jellybean” Johnson has passed away at the age of 69, according to Ultraviolet Media Holdings. A cause of death has not been revealed at this time.
Johnson was born in Chicago in 1956 and moved to north Minneapolis in 1968. He is considered one of the artists who popularized the Minneapolis Sound hybrid musical genre that emerged in the late 1970s…