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Slideshow Most influential people A sampling of those who made the latest Time magazine list. Slideshow Levon Helm, longtime drummer in The Band, dead at 71 Tweet Share this Email Print Musician Levon Helm attends the 22nd annual W.C. Handy Awards show in Memphis, in this May 24, 2001 file photo. Helm, a longtime member of The Band, is in the final stages of cancer, his family said on Tuesday. Helm, 71, who also toured with Ringo Starr's All Star band in the 1980s and won a Grammy Award for his 2011 release ''Ramble at the Ryman,'' had canceled a series of recent gigs, raising fears about his health. 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"Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon," Helm's manager Barbara O'Brien said in a statement. "He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul." Tributes immediately began pouring in from fans, popping up on Twitter at a fast rate. Although the cancer silenced Helm's crystal-clear tenor for a while, he strengthened his voice sufficiently to resume singing in 2004. He hosted a regular series of what he called "Midnight Ramble" concerts that often featured big-name stars at his home-studio in Woodstock, New York. In addition to singing, Helm played drums, mandolin and other string instruments in The Band, one of the most revered and influential rock groups to emerge from the 1960s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, it played a brand of rustic rock that drew on country, blues and rhythm and blues and sounded quintessentially American - even though Helm was the only member not from Canada. Helm's daughter Amy, who sang in his latest band, and wife, Sandy, announced on Tuesday the he was in the final stage of his fight with cancer. "Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration," they said on Facebook. "He has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage. BACKED UP DYLAN Helm was born to cotton farmers in 1940 and grew up near the community of Turkey Scratch, outside Helena, Arkansas, with the intention of being a musician. He was a teenager when he became the drummer for another Arkansas native, rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins. Hawkins took the group to Canada, where he added guitarist Robbie Robertson, bassist Rick Danko and keyboardists Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson to The Hawks. Eventually the four Canadians and Helm would split off. In 1965, Bob Dylan recruited them to back him up on his first U.S. "electric" tour, a raucous event strung over September 1965 to May 1966 that marked Dylan's transition from acoustic to rock 'n' roll and outraged his folkie fans. Helm was dismayed by the hostile reception and returned to Arkansas for a two-year hiatus. Eventually reunited with his band mates in 1968 and calling themselves simply The Band, they produced the landmark "Music From Big Pink," an album named for the house they rented near Woodstock. That was followed the next year by the "brown album" titled The Band. Viewed by most critics as their masterpiece, the album was steeped in old-time rural Americana and made heavy use of Helm's plaintive Southern drawl. The Band's greatest success came in the early and mid-1970s and, while they were not a huge commercial success, critics loved them. "Up on Cripple Creek," "The Weight" and the Civil War saga "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," also a hit for Joan Baez, were popular on FM radio stations of the time. Helm stayed with The Band through its 1976 farewell concert, which Martin Scorsese documented in his film "The Last Waltz." While the movie is regarded as perhaps the best rock 'n' roll documentary, Helm derided it and particularly Robertson, whom he bitterly accused of preening for the camera, unfairly claiming writing credits and trying to appear the leader of the group in which all had been equals. The estranged band mates appeared to make peace just days before Helm's death, when Robertson visited Helm in a New York hospital and later described him as "like an older brother" on Facebook. Following some solo albums, Helm reunited in 1983 with The Band, minus Robertson. Manuel committed suicide while they were on tour in 1986. The remaining members - Helm, Danko and Hudson - released the final Band album in 1998. Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer that year. He earned a spot on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 greatest singers of all time. Jim James of the band My Morning Jacket wrote, "There is something about Levon Helm's voice that is contained in all of our voices. It is ageless, timeless and has no race. He can sing with such depth and emotion but he can also convey a good-old fun-time growl." In 2007, Helm released his first solo studio album in 25 years, "Dirt Farmer," which picked up a Grammy award for best traditional folk album. In 2009, he released "Electric Dirt," winning another Grammy in the new Americana category. In 2011, he won for "Ramble At The Ryman" for best Americana album. Helm also had a successful side career as an actor, using his aura of earthy dignity in movies such as "The Right Stuff" and "Coal Miner's Daughter," based on the life of country singer Loretta Lynn, in which he played her father. "Levon Helm will always hold a special place in my heart. He was as great of an actor as a musician," Lynn wrote on the official Loretta Lynn Facebook page. "For me watching him play the role of my daddy in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' is a memory I will always treasure." (Reporting by Jonathan Allen and Barbara Goldberg; Writing by Vicki Allen; Editing by Paul Thomasch and Cynthia Osterman) Entertainment Fashion Music Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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