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Stephen Gately, from Boyzone, died with 33 years old on the 10th of October, in the spanish island of Mallorca

London, 11th October (EFE).- Stephen Gately, member of the irish boyband Boyzone, who made success in the 90's, died last Saturday in the spanish island of Mallorca, where he was spending his holiday with his colleague, Andrew Cowles.

The website of the band, which splited in 2000 and got back eight years later, said that Gately, with 33 years old, "died in a tragic way" in the night of yesterday.

The announcement of the singer's dead caused comotion on the UK and Ireland. The other band members said that today they've gone to Spain to inquire themselves about what happened.

So far, the circunstamces of Gately's dead haven't been cleared. But according to Andratx Police's sources (Mallorca) said to the Efe agency that the artist died in his apartment in the touristic part of disseram Cala Llamp.

The editor of espectacles of the journal "News Of The World", Dan Wootton, said to to "BBC" that Gately got out with his husband on the Saturdya night and, after getting back and go to bed, he didn't woke up anymore.

Louis Walsh, band's manager, said he was shocked with the news, but he didn't had any details of what happened.

He said he was in shock and he had been with him a ceremony of awards and said they don't know too much about what happened, said Walsh, saying that Gately "was a great man".

Boyzone made a lot of success in Europe in the 90's, when they've sold more singles than Take That.

In June, 1999, one year before the group ends, Gately said he was homosexual and that he was dating Andrew Cowles, which he got married with in 2006, in a ceremony at London.

After the end of Boyzone, Gately got solo, getting three singles in the list of the 20 most sold singles. He also have been part of several success musicals in the brittish capital.

Singer Elton John talked about his colleague's dead, which he reffered as a "lovely and sweet" person. He said he and his husband, David Furnish, were lost with this tragedy and said they're sending their love and happiness to his friend Andy and to all his friends in the whole world.

Did any of you knew this band? If so, please, tell me.