Overview
- Negron co-founded Three Dog Night in 1967 and sang lead on signature hits including “Joy to the World,” “One,” “Easy to Be Hard,” and “The Show Must Go On.”
- Between 1969 and 1975, the band placed 21 songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40, with three reaching No. 1, cementing its status as a dominant singles act.
- He battled severe addiction during the 1970s, was dismissed from the reunited band in 1985, achieved sobriety in 1991, and later chronicled his recovery in the 1999 memoir Three Dog Nightmare.
- Negron lived with COPD for decades and was diagnosed with heart failure in recent months; he continued performing for years before the COVID-19 pandemic ended his touring.
- After decades of estrangement, he reconciled last year with fellow founder Danny Hutton, who recalled visiting Negron when he was very ill; survivors include his wife, Ami Albea Negron, and five children.