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Jimmy Kimmel announced Cleto Escobedo III, his longtime friend and bandleader of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” has died at 59. Escobedo has been with the show since it premiered in 2003, and he and Kimmel were friends since childhood. Source link

Cleto Escobedo III, longtime bandleader of the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show, has died, Jimmy Kimmel announced on Tuesday. He was 59 years old. The late-night talk show host mourned the death of one of his oldest friends — whom he met when he was 9 years old — writing on Instagram that “[t]o say that we…