George Osmond, the patriarch of the Osmond family of singers and performers, has died at age 90.

Osmond died Tuesday morning at his home in Utah, according to a family spokesman. Further details and a cause of death were not immediately revealed.

Born in Wyoming, Osmond was a young soldier living in Utah in the 1940s when he met the woman who would become his wife, Olive.

The musically inclined couple married in 1944 and eventually welcomed eight sons and one daughter into their family.

Their sons Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay, found fame as the squeaky clean singing quartet the Osmond Brothers in the 1970s, getting their big break at Disneyland before becoming regular performers on popular TV variety program The Andy Williams Show.

Younger siblings Donny and Jimmy Osmond also took part in the group, though they also found later success as solo artists.

Donny and sister Marie gained the highest profile, however, becoming internationally known as a singing duo and hosts of their own TV variety show.

George Osmond, whose wife died in 2004, is survived by his children and dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The entire surviving Osmond family of more than 100 had been scheduled to attend a special taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday. However, the death of the family's patriarch could now scuttle the filming.

In Las Vegas in August, the family also reunited on stage for the first time in more than 20 years for a 50th-anniversary PBS reunion special scheduled to air next year.

With files from the Associated Press