D'Wayne Wiggins

D'Wayne Patrice Wiggins (14 ga Fabrairu, 1961 - 7 ga Maris, 2025) mawaki ne ɗan ƙasar Amurka, mawaƙi, mai guitar kuma mai shirya waƙoƙi wanda aka fi sani da memba na ƙungiyar R&B/soul Tony! Toni! Toné!.      Ya kafa Tony! Toni! Toné! a shekarar 1986 tare da ƙanensa, Charles Ray Wiggins (wanda daga baya aka sani da Raphael Saadiq ), da ɗan uwansu Timothy Christian Riley .     Ƙungiyar ta sami kundin waƙoƙi uku na platinum da kuma waƙoƙin da suka yi fice a shekarun 1980 da 1990. 

Wiggins ya kafa kamfanin Grass Roots Entertainment a shekarar 1995, wanda ya taimaka wajen haɓaka masu fasaha kamar Destiny's Child, Keyshia Cole, HER, Zendaya da Kehlani .     Ya fitar da aikinsa na farko kuma na kaɗai tare da Motown Records, Eyes Never Lie, a shekarar 2000.  

Wiggins ya yi aiki a kan kundin waƙoƙin Alicia Keys na 2003 mai suna The Diary of Alicia Keys, [1] [2] inda ya lashe kyautar Grammy a matsayin furodusa. Shi ne kuma shugaban ƙungiyar mawakan barkwanci ta DL Hughley 's Comedy Central Series Weekends a DL .

An haifi Wiggins a ranar 14 ga Fabrairu, 1961, a Oakland, California, ga Charlie da Mary (Brown) Wiggins;  musamman a unguwar Lower Bottoms da ke West Oakland . Ya girma a Gabashin Oakland, inda ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta Castlemont, ya kammala karatunsa a shekarar 1979.

 Farkon aikina kuma Tony! Toni! Toné! 
Wiggins ya fara buga guitar yana ɗan shekara 11.  Ya buga waƙa a ƙungiyar mawakan makarantar sakandare kuma bayan kammala karatunsa ya shiga ƙungiyoyi da dama a kusa da Oakland kuma daga ƙarshe ya tafi yawon shakatawa tare da Tramaine Hawkins .  'Yan'uwan Wiggins da Riley sun yi aiki tare da mawaƙa Sheena Easton kuma suka haɗu da ita a yawon shakatawa na Prince 's Parade Tour . 

Sun yanke shawarar kafa ƙungiyarsu ta kansu, Tony! Toni! Toné!, bayan sun koma Oakland.  Ƙungiyar tana da waƙoƙi 14 na R&B masu jadawalin Billboard, ciki har da waƙoƙi biyar masu lamba ɗaya, waƙoƙi uku na Top Ten pop, kundin zinariya ɗaya, kundin platinum biyu da kundin platinum biyu. Sun sayar da kundin waƙoƙi sama da miliyan shida a lokacin aikinsu tare. Kuɗi, rashin sadarwa da bambance-bambancen kirkire-kirkire sun wargaza ƙungiyar a shekarar 1997, kuma Wiggins da Riley sun yi rangadin ƙungiyar da sunan ƙungiyar tsakanin 1998 da 2018 tare da Amar Khalil wanda ya jagoranci waƙoƙin.  Asalin jerin waƙoƙin Tony! Toni! Toné! ya sake haɗuwa a shekarar 2023 don ɗan gajeren rangadi.  

 Daga baya rayuwa, rashin lafiya da mutuwa 
Har zuwa mutuwarsa, Wiggins ya ci gaba da yawon shakatawa a matsayin shugaban ƙungiyar mawakan Tony! Toni! Toné!. A shekarar 2023, Wiggins zai sake haɗuwa da sauran membobin ƙungiyar Raphael Saadiq da Timothy Christian Riley don Just Me and You Tour . 

A ranar 5 ga Maris, 2025, Tony! Toni! Toné! ya bayyana a shafinsa na Instagram cewa Wiggins yana fuskantar matsalolin lafiya kuma yana "yin aiki a kan lokaci ɗaya".  Ya mutu sakamakon cutar kansar mafitsara a gidansa da ke Oakland kwana biyu bayan haka, a ranar 7 ga Maris, yana da shekaru 64.  
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2025
Rukuni:Haihuwan 1961
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