Once a Philly street performer, Anthony Riley, 28, became a household name when he received the fastest four chair turn around on NBC’s “The Voice” this past January. Riley performed James Brown’s “I Got You (I Feel Good).” Then he suddenly departed the show for personal reasons, according to judge Pharrell Williams. We later learned the talent has issues with drugs.
Riley opened up to “The Voice’s” production staff in January after his first Battle Round victory and disclosed his addiction. NBC producers flew him from Los Angeles back to Philadelphia so he could enter Clarity Way, a drug and alcohol rehab facility in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
On Friday, June 5, 2015, he was found dead of an apparent suicide.
