The musician’s will has revealed the staggering sum that Maxi Jazz left behind after his passing, some of which was set aside for donation to a Buddhist charity.
Faithless frontman Maxi Jazz left behind a £3 million fortune in his will, along with an impressive gift to a Buddhist charity close to his heart.
The pioneering dance music star, born Maxwell Fraser, died in December 2022 at the age of 65 following a long illness. Jazz was the voice behind Faithless anthems like Insomnia, God Is A DJ and We Come 1.
Newly released probate records reveal that the musician’s estate was valued at £3,119,567 before deductions, with around £60,000 reduced due to costs. It comes after Sir Michael Palin says he is preparing for the end of his life in sad update.
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According to The Sun, 20 percent of the estate, amounting to approximately £624,000, was left to Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a global Buddhist charity.
After a girlfriend introduced jazz to SGI’s Nichiren Buddhism in the early 1990s, Jazz devotedly followed it. SGI teaches that chanting and personal empowerment can transform someone’s life. The group has attracted criticism from some former members despite having a large following, and it continues to be a contentious topic in international religious circles.
According to the 2019 will, which the High Court approved last week, friends and his niece Michaela will inherit her share of the estate. There were no children for Maxi Jazz.
Jazz was born in Brixton, South London, and he was the first to make waves on pirate radio in the 1980s before co-founding Faithless in 1995, at the age of nearly 40. Before discovering Buddhism, he once said that the group’s name reflected his sense of spiritual emptiness.
Insomnia, the group’s breakout single, was written while a painful tooth abscess made you sleepless night. Jazz claimed that his only constant was his music writing. The song is still a defining anthem of the era and quickly became a club classic.
Jazz and Faithless played in concert at large festival gatherings, including a 100, 000-strong audience at Glastonbury in 2002, before leaving in 2016 to start new musical projects with his blues-reggae band, Maxi Jazz &, The E-Type Boys.
Faithless paid tribute to the frontman with a sincere statement that read, “He was a man who changed our lives in so many ways. He gave our music its proper message and meaning. He also had time for everyone, and he had a profound and accessible wisdom. Working with him was a great honor and, of course, a real pleasure.
He had a brilliant voice, a brilliant DJ, a brilliant stage presence, endless talk, beautiful person, moral compass, and genius.
Jazz was a devoted Crystal Palace supporter as well, and he joined the South London football team as an associate director in 2012. Players in his honor walked out of Selhurst Park after his passing to pay tribute to him at Faithless Music.
Club chairman Steve Parish also commemorated him, saying: “He was such a huge talent, a massive supporter of the club in every way and just a wonderful kind-hearted man. He made the world dance, sing and laugh and someone I was privileged to call a friend. RIP Maxi.”
Source: Mirror
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