Bowie State's Robert Reed, Keyboardist, Is Dead at 50

Robert Reed, who played keyboards in Trouble Funk, one of the definitive groups of go-go music — a raucous, high-intensity dance style that flourished in the 1970s and early ’80s — died on Sunday in Arlington, Va. He was 50 and lived in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his brother Taylor, who played trumpet in the band. Mr. Reed was born in Newport News, Va., and later moved with his five siblings to Washington, where his mother worked as a nurse. He graduated from Howard University with a degree in music and had recently worked at Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland, instructing students in recording technology.

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