‘Brandon Blackstock passed away peacefully at his home in Butte, Montana on August 7th under hospice care surrounded by his family,’ Silver Bow County Coroner Dan Hollis said, confirming that Blackstock’s cause of death was melanoma, a form of skin cancer and that the manner of death was natural causes.

Kelly Clarkson has pulled out of an upcoming concert appearance at an event slated to take place this weekend following the death of her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock. The singer’s ex, to whom she was married from 2013 to 2020, died on Aug. 3 following a yearslong private battle with melanoma, a serious form of skin cancer. He was 48.