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In an old music thread, I mourned the loss of singer Christina Grimmie. She was murdered at only 22 years old while doing something quite routine for an up-and-coming musician: meeting her fans. She opened her arms to hug one, and he pulled a gun and shot her three times. Half and hour later, she was gone.
I saw this article today noting that it is the tenth anniversary of her loss. The music industry, and the world, is the lesser for that loss. Wonderful voice, vivacious personality, a real talent who could have gone places.
Her family started a foundation in her memory that raises money for the families of gun victims. $600,000 (US) paid out to 300 families since it started in 2017. What a way to remember her.
And there's always the music. She was, like many of her age, active on social media so YouTube still has plenty of Christina Grimmie.
The first time many people (not me, I discovered her later) heard Christina was her appearance on The Voice. She came third and Adam Levine, one of the coaches at the time, got her a record deal. This is her blind audition, the then recent Miley Cyrus hit "Wrecking Ball".
One of my first times hearing her was this collaboration with YouTubers Kurt Hugo Schneider and Sam Tsui. Kurt and Sam were badly shaken by her murder and later released a new version by Sam in her memory.
One of her own compositions, written for her mother when she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Tina, her mother, decided to release this a couple years after Christina's death.
And from Side A, the only EP released while she was alive. Another EP and her only album came out posthumously through efforts by her family. The video, part of a short film, came out after her death.
I saw this article today noting that it is the tenth anniversary of her loss. The music industry, and the world, is the lesser for that loss. Wonderful voice, vivacious personality, a real talent who could have gone places.
Her family started a foundation in her memory that raises money for the families of gun victims. $600,000 (US) paid out to 300 families since it started in 2017. What a way to remember her.
And there's always the music. She was, like many of her age, active on social media so YouTube still has plenty of Christina Grimmie.
The first time many people (not me, I discovered her later) heard Christina was her appearance on The Voice. She came third and Adam Levine, one of the coaches at the time, got her a record deal. This is her blind audition, the then recent Miley Cyrus hit "Wrecking Ball".
One of my first times hearing her was this collaboration with YouTubers Kurt Hugo Schneider and Sam Tsui. Kurt and Sam were badly shaken by her murder and later released a new version by Sam in her memory.
One of her own compositions, written for her mother when she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Tina, her mother, decided to release this a couple years after Christina's death.
And from Side A, the only EP released while she was alive. Another EP and her only album came out posthumously through efforts by her family. The video, part of a short film, came out after her death.