Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger is not dead, despite online reports

False reports of Chad Kroeger’s death surfaced this week in the blogosphere and went viral within minutes, just days after his band, Nickelback, launched its North American tour.

False reports of Chad Kroeger’s death surfaced this week in the blogosphere and went viral within minutes, just days after his band, Nickelback, launched its North American tour.

The band was last seen playing at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio on April 15.

Two days later a website reported that the musician died while vacationing in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the early morning of April 17.

Nickelback is scheduled to play Madison Square Garden Thursday, and on Tuesday the band offered this statement on it’s Twitter feed: “Jon Bon Jovi said Heaven looks like New Jersey. Today, it looks like a beautiful Spring day in NYC. We’ll see you (all 4 of us) Thurs @ MSG.”

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This is not the first time Kroeger has been reported dead on the Internet.

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Back in July 2011 fans took to the web to find out if the singer had passed away. His then-wife Marianne Goriuk has also been reported dead. And in 2008 the singer told Playboy magazine that he knew when he would die. “It’s been foretold,” he said. “I will be dead on my 40th birthday.”

Kroeger was born Nov. 15, 1974.