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A candlelight vigil was planned Sunday night for Chi Cheng, bassist for Grammy-winning rock band the Deftones, who died after struggling to recover from serious injuries suffered in a car crash more than four years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cheng, 42, was taken to an emergency room, where his heart stopped early Saturday<\/strong>, his mother, Jeanne Marie Cheng, wrote on the website, One Love for Chi, that had been set up to support him.<\/p>\n

He and his band mates won a Best Metal Performance Grammy in 2001, was a “powerful bassist who was larger than life on stage,” the Recording Academy, the industry organization that presents the Grammys, said in a statement Sunday.<\/p>\n

“Although the group’s early years were more heavy metal-based,” the statement read, “they were one of the first bands to incorporate a more alternative and ethereal sound into their thunderous and visceral music, blazing a trail that newer bands continue to follow today.”<\/p>\n

Cheng played on five albums with the Sacramento-based band.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cheng was traveling with Mae, his sister, when his car collided with another vehicle traveling 60 mph and rolled three times on Nov. 4, 2008, in Santa Clara.<\/p>\n

Chi was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the car.<\/strong> Cheng never recovered full consciousness, and had been in and out of hospitals for different infections.<\/p>\n

Despite spending years comatose, he had recently shown some signs of improvement, said Cheng’s hometown newspaper,<\/strong> The Sacramento Bee, which first reported his death.<\/p>\n

He was also a practicing Buddhist, and maintained an interest in Taoism and Shamanism. Cheng was also a vegetarian. During college, he read No Denial!: A Handbook for Becoming a Socially, Environmentally, and Personally Responsible Citizen of the Planet by Neill S. Cohen and decided to make the switch.<\/p>\n

The vigil was planned for Sunday evening at Sacramento’s Cesar Chavez Plaza.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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