According to TMZ, the singer and producer, who was 46, passed away on Thursday (July 17) while surrounded by his family and close friends at his Willingboro, New Jersey home.
No cause of death has been determined yet. Pardlo leaves behind his wife, Anika Pardlo, and their two children, Lyric and Chord-Andrew Pardlo. Also mourning his death is his mother, Marion Pardlo, and his brother, Gregory Pardlo. City High, which also consisted of former members Ryan Toby and Claudette Ortiz, was a group mentored by Fugees founding member Wyclef Jean. Signed to Jean’s Booga Basement record label, City High would only release one album, its 2001 self-titled LP. The album, which debuted at No. 34 on the Billboard 200 chart, included singles “What Would You Do?” which earned the group a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, and “Caramel” featuring Eve.
In 2023, Ryan Toby reflected on the group’s disbandment while appearing as a guest on Tank and J. Valentine’s R&B Money podcast, expressing that Pardlo became “unfocused” due to problems with Ortiz, who he had dated since high school. Toby and Ortiz would eventually marry in 2004 and divorce three years later. The ex-spouses share two children.