Jimmy Kimmel's Band Leader Cleto Escobedo III Dies at 59
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Cleto Escobedo III, the longtime bandleader of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and a childhood friend of Kimmel, has died at age 59 after falling ill, ending a 20-year collaboration and a friendship that began in childhood in Las Vegas.
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