Michael Wright, Star of ‘The Five Heartbeats’ and ‘Sugar Hill,’ Dies at 70

Michael Wright, who starred as the lead vocalist Eddie King Jr. in Robert Townsend’s The Five Heartbeats and as Wesley Snipes’ brother in Sugar Hill , has died. He was 70.

Wright died Wednesday in Los Angeles of heart failure and complications from Marchiafava-Bignami disease, a rare degenerative neurological disorder, TMZ reported .