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Jennifer Finch, L7 Bassist, Dies at 59 After Battle With Brain Cancer

Rapid complications from an aggressive brain cancer removed her from the band's farewell tour, triggering a large GoFundMe focused on in‑home care, medical therapy, archive preservation.

Overview

  • L7 announced late Saturday that Jennifer Finch died at 59 after a courageous, but rapid, fight with an aggressive form of brain cancer.
  • Friends, family and bandmates said unforeseen complications required multiple surgeries and left Finch with serious physical limitations that forced her to withdraw from L7’s U.S. dates.
  • A public GoFundMe launched to pay for in‑home nursing, therapy, medical equipment and to preserve her creative archive raised more than several hundred thousand dollars.
  • Finch had asked L7 to continue the band’s planned Last Hurrah tour without her and the group named Tsuzumi Okai as a temporary touring replacement for some dates.
  • Finch helped define L7’s 1990s sound as a bassist, songwriter and activist, and her family and band have asked for privacy while they grieve and steward her legacy.