Gene ‘Groove’ Allen
Lifeless at 63 …
‘What’s Love Obtained To Do With It?’, ‘Home Celebration’ Actor
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Gene Allen — a rapper and actor who appeared in just a few well-known flicks within the Nineteen Nineties together with “Home Celebration” and “What’s Love Obtained to Do with It?” — has died … TMZ has discovered.
Certainly one of Gene’s members of the family tells TMZ … Gene, identified by his nickname “Groove,” handed away all of the sudden Wednesday at his residence.
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We’re instructed Groove’s passing got here as a whole shock to the household … although we’re instructed no foul play is suspected.
Allen — a pioneer in hip hop — rose to prominence as a member of the trio “Groove B. Chill” together with Daryl Mitchell and Eric B. The group appeared within the 1990 film “Home Celebration” and it is sequel alongside Christopher Reid, Robin Harris and a younger Martin Lawrence.
In 1993, he had a short cameo as a membership announcer within the Tina Turner biopic “What’s Love Obtained to Do with It?”
Just lately, Gene had taken to carry out for good causes … elevating cash for army personnel and a girls’s shelter.
Allen was 63.
RIP
