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Alexander O'Neal and his wife were hospitalized on Friday, Dec. 5, after a fire broke out at their Burnsville, Minn., apartment

The blaze sent the soul singer back to the hospital just hours after he returned home from an ICU stay on life support for bacterial pneumonia and an enlarged heart, his wife said

O'Neal helped found funk band The Time — which collaborated often with Prince — but was replaced by Morris Day

Alexander O'Neal, a soul singer and former Prince collaborator, had just arrived home from a nearly two-week stay in the ICU when his Minnesota apartment caught fire, according to his wife.

The soul musician, 72, and his wife and manager, Cynthia O'Neal, were hospitalized in the morning of Friday, Dec. 5, after a blaze broke out at their Burnsville, Minn., ap

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