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The Star, Sheffield
  • 14/10/2024
Loved ones and music fans mourn Sheffield Music legend Austin Grant, after his death aged 70.
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00:00Loved ones and music fans are mourning the death of a former Sheffield steel worker who became a key figure in the city's music scene.
00:08Austin Grant, who was also a city youth worker, set up the famous Music in the Sun music festival and the Bob Marley Studios,
00:17working with some of the biggest performers of the 90s and the noughties.
00:21The festival ran throughout the 1990s.
00:24His family announced his death this week at the age of 70 after a short illness.

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