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Mark Sandman
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In 1999, before a crowd of 2,000 at an Italian music festival, Sandman was reciting the lyrics to "Moma's Sister," a song from his pre-Morphine days, in Italian when he collapsed from a heart attack. The 46-year-old bass player and vocalist, who had been working on a new Morphine album, died in an ambulance en route to a hospital. A friend told the Boston Globe his weak heart might have been related to an incident 20 years earlier, when Sandman was stabbed in the chest while driving a cab.
