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==Personal life and death==

James Hawthorne died in his Brooklyn home of stomach cancer at the age of 90.<ref name="chief" /><ref name="carlson">Carlson, Russell. [http://jazztimes.com/articles/22657-percussionist-chief-bey-dies "Percussionist Chief Bey Dies."] ''www.jazztimes.com'', April 15, 2004.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Carlson|first=Russell|title=Percussionist Chief Bey Dies|url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/percussionist-chief-bey-dies/|access-date=2020-07-30|website=JazzTimes|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|agency=Associated Press|date=2004-04-13|title=Chief Bey, 91, Jazz Drummer|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/business/chief-bey-91-jazz-drummer.html|access-date=2020-07-30|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> His first wife passed 3 years before him, Louise Hawthorne, soprano opera singer traveled the world together, while she sang operas like Aida and Madame Butterfly leaving their 3 children, David, Denise and Carolyn with just their father.  His youngest daughter Carolyn who’s on his last CD followed him in death.

His common law wife Barbara Kenyatta  (born Barbara Ann Coleman in Harlem on June 9, 1944), was a priestess of [[Yemaja|Yémaya]] in the [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] religion. She collapsed and died four days later.<ref name="drum" />