Wayne Osmond dies at 73

SALT LAKE CITY — On Thursday, sources close to the Osmond family confirmed to KSL TV that Wayne Osmond has died after suffering a stroke. He was 73.

Osmond was the second oldest of the original performing Osmond Brothers, after Alan Osmand and before Merill and Jay Osmond. The family achieved worldwide fame playing music, and Wayne Osmond played a large part in it.

Just last year, Wayne Osmond told KSL TV that he very quickly learned to play eight instruments in the early days of his career in the 1960s and ’70s. After many successful performances, Wayne Osmond helped produce “The Donny and Marie Show.”

Wayne Osmond met his wife, Kathlyn Louise White, at Brigham Young University. White became Miss Utah 1974 but opted to give up the title, marry Wayne and go on tour with the Osmonds.

“This is a woman of faith,” Wayne Osmond told KSL TV in 2023.

White added that she had a spiritual confirmation that her choice was right.

“Which is what got us through all the rollercoasters of show business,” White said.

Then, in 1997, Wayne Osmond was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He underwent treatment through radiation and, in the process, lost his hearing and could no longer perform. But with cochlear implants, he could still communicate.