B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. At the beginning of Christina's YouTube career, her videos were straightforward: She'd sit behind an electric piano against a beige wall with a retro Sonic poster in the background. She soon gained a large following across social media with roughly three million subscribers on YouTube when she was killed, according to news reports published at the time.
Marcus, Christina's brother, told Insider that his sister's friends had encouraged her to post singing videos. She could do just about anything. One of her most notable covers was a collaboration with singers Sam Tsui and Kurt Hugo Schneider, singing a stripped-down, piano-heavy version of Nelly's " Just a Dream " in The cover has since amassed over million combined views on both Christina's and Schneider's channels.
Schneider told Insider that he wished the group had more opportunities to recreate that magic again. She got the attention of all four judges and chose to join Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine's team. The contestants work with the judges to hone their singing abilities to move forward in the competition, meaning she and Levine worked together closely.
She placed third in the competition, which was ultimately won by Josh Kaufman. Levine offered to help pay for Christina's funeral services, Rolling Stone reported at the time. During an interview with Insider, Mike Tompkins, a singer who had his start on YouTube, remembered her work ethic and said that she differed from other artists he worked with. She was raw talent. Tyler Ward, another YouTube music star, added: "She had a gift and an anointing where she could sing live, and it would awe people.
In April , the Grimmie family created the Christina Grimmie Foundation to support families of victims of gun violence. He tugged nervously at his red, white and blue plaid flannel shirt and adjusted his new black baseball cap. After the show, he got in line behind dozens of other fans who wanted to meet the vivacious year-old singer.
He shifted his weight back and forth. Soon, it was his turn. Christina opened her arms to greet him with a hug. In return, he pulled out a black 9 mm glock and fired five shots, hitting her three times at point-blank range.
The next night, 49 people were gunned down at the Pulse nightclub, and two days after that, a small boy was dragged into a lake and killed by an alligator at Walt Disney World. Attention shifted away from the gruesome killing at The Plaza. Six months after the death of the songbird who loved her family, her fans, God and video games, the question remains: Why did Kevin James Loibl, 27, travel more than miles from St.
Petersburg to shoot "The Voice" singer? Police and court documents, family and witness interviews, photographs and video obtained by the Orlando Sentinel reveal how the lives of the troubled man and the talented YouTube star intersected.
Christina and her brother, Mark, piled into their double-decker tour bus with the band "Before You Exit" after another show. She stripped off her makeup, got into sweatpants and started playing her Nintendo DS.
While on tour, Mark played guitar for her, worked as road manager and made sure she ate breakfast every morning. They goofed around constantly and even sported player 1 and player 2 video game tattoos on their inner arms. Although her jaw-dropping vocals brought her mainstream fame, she was just as well-known in the gaming world, especially when it came to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series, using the YouTube user name "zeldaxlove While on the road, they both had the support of their parents, Bud and Tina Grimmie.
Even at a young age, Christina's musical inclinations were obvious. Mark helped bring her out of her shell and soon, that nervousness was replaced with confidence, fueled by her success in her YouTube videos that she started posting in Christina and her family moved from New Jersey to California while she was still in high school to chase her dreams, even as Tina was undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer.
Though Christina was well known for her covers of hit singles, she still craved her own breakout hit. She was working on some new music, hoping to finally reach her goal of having a song on the radio, though her EP, "Find Me" did well on iTunes. Her fan base grew to nearly 1 million Twitter followers. YouTube became a home for her to share her talent with her 3. One of his only friends, Cory Dennington, recalled the "semi-abusive household" during police interviews, saying Kevin told him his mother beat him with a frying pan, threw dishes at him and broke his brother's arm.
Nora Loibl died at their St. When the YouTuber returned home with his father at around 10pm, Speight was asleep on the sofa in the living room, charging up his phone in a power socket under a coffee table. My boy, we are about to fucking murk [stab] you. YouTube has created a new dynamic between fans and stars. Creators involve fans in achieving their triumphs and fans feel a sense of ownership of those successes. This tends to surprise adults who have never been within miles of Tom Cruise or Nicole Kidman.
Four months later, Sugg was in the final. At face value, that sounds like a compliment to those fans — so more would turn up the next time. Fans would begin tracking the movements of their favourite YouTubers, triangulating their location from social media posts because this generation of celebrity always has to shine some light on their personal lives to be considered authentic , hoping to catch a glimpse of them. That is why Summer in the City now has a backstage area.
Burns is definitive about the change. In , Deyes told The Telegraph that he and his girlfriend face daily intrusions into their lives from parents driving their children to their door.
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