THE GAME OF LIFE – CHRISTINA GRIMMIE
“Man, I was
dumb-struck by the depth and range of control in her voice. She truly is the
‘Baby Celine Dion.’” Christina Grimmie
was a famous singer known for her high-pitch singing and her expertise in
playing the piano which she showcased on YouTube. Her career grew as she left
the judges in a singing competition called THE VOICE and as she left Selena
Gomez herself in awe with her singing. She deserved that praise after all. But
her life was put to an end by one of her fans, namely Kevin James, who was not
ready to respect her choices and religion.
Birth, Childhood and her Small Start
Christina was born
and grew up in a normal place but grew her career into a big one. She was born
in Malton, New Jersey to Tina and Albert Grimmie. She also had an elder brother
called Marcus. She grew up in Malton, New Jersey where she attended Baptist
Regional Elementary school and Cherokee High school. Her father was the one who
noticed her brilliant talent of singing when she was only six years old. She
also came to be a wonderful pianist which was a result of her starting to learn
piano at the age of ten. In 2010, Christina was homeschooled for her junior
year. Her mother was someone she got inspiration from as a fighter of breast
cancer which her mom suffered from three times – on and off.
She started doing
YouTube covers from 2009 at the age of 15. It is proved that Christina was a
fan of Miley Cyrus’ singing. Her first cover was “Don’t Wanna Be Torn” by Miley
Cyrus. She was first recognized as extremely talented in august, 2009 on
YouTube. She grew famous on YouTube in 2010 when she tallied 135 million views
on her videos. But her moment was on April 28th,2013 when she hit 2
million subscribers and tallied 375 million views on her videos.
The Voice and Being Noticed
Christina was taken
to another level when she decided to audition for NBC’s singing competition
called The Voice-Season 6. She sang the hit song ‘Wrecking Ball’ by Miley Cyrus
for her blind audition, leaving the judges in awe. She auditioned in 2014. “A
wonderful soul she was,” they said. She had a wonderful journey on The Voice
placing 3rd after competing against competing against Jake Barker
and Kristen Merlin. Her singing was admired and was said that it sometimes was
better than the original persons singing. She did justice to all the songs she
sang. She was announced 3rd on May 19th,2014. She
performed the best on Wrecking Ball and Counting Stars in the first few rounds.
Her mind-blowing
performance on The Voice resulted in her signing up for several records. Her
coach from The Voice, namely Adam Levine, desired for her to sign up for the
222 Records. Lil Wayne was interested in
the idea of signing her up for the Young Money Entertainment. She was on top of
the world when she ultimately signed up for the Island Records.
She was noticed by
other famous celebrities and singers prevalent at the time, including Selena
Gomez. She performed very few concerts before The Voice but her popularity grw
when she was found being mentored by Selena herself.
She was critiqued
casually by Usher, one of the judges from The Voice, who called her a “Baby
Celine Dion”. Graham Nash claimed that he was surprised by the depth and range
of control in her voice.
But if you look back
into her life, she was just a normal person posting covers on YouTube as a
hobby. This hobby turned into a career and it grew her in such a way that she
claims she was being flowered with praises and requests to perform at concerts.
She thanked her mentors and supporters with all her heart for getting her to
such a level.
Her End
But her life was put
to an end when she was shot dead in a concert in Orlando, Florida. It was such
a tragic and sad death for such a beautiful and inspiring person. She had too
much talent to leave us so soon. I still wonder why she and only she had to die
when a humble and honest person liked her had not made any purposeful mistake
in life, not even the smallest mistake.
On June 10th,
2016, she was meeting her fans and signing autographs. She was about to greet a
27-year-old called Kevin James Loibl with open arms as per to hug him when the
armed Kevin shot her in the head three times.
There was a 20-year-old
behind Kevin called Rivera. She thought the shooting was balloons popping but
when she turned backwards from talking to her friends, she saw Christina
Grimmie fall dead on the ground. Rivera teared-up and left.
Christina’s brother
tried to tackle the killer when he broke free, backed himself up against a wall
and shot himself dead. Christina was in a critical condition so was rushed to
the Orlando Regional Medical Centre but was sadly pronounced dead at 11.p.m.
There were several
tweets on Twitter posted by singers and artists like Selena Gomez, Adam Levine
and Usher who claimed that they were heart-broken. They also tweeted that a
crazed fanatic like Kevin James deserved worse which even I agree on.
“Why would such a
ruthless person want to kill a wonderful soul like Christina Grimmie with no
actual reason to kill her?” you must wonder. It was partly due to the fact that
Christina came from a Christian faith which Kevin James loathed. Also, a
shocking fact is that the killer was in love with Christina Grimmie who he got
a plastic surgery on his eye for and became vegan as per to loose weight but
when he realized that Christina was in a relationship with her producer, he
raged up. This is another reason why he killed her.
Kevin had a police ID
which took advantage of. This is said to be a hate crime with Kevin being
recognized as a hateful person. This tells us about the conflict between
religions that is still prevalent at this time and how people can not respect
other people’s choices.
Christina Grimmie was
a well known singer and songwriter. She may not be with us anymore but is an
inspiration to many as a pursuer of their dreams. Christina may have started
small and grew big but it would have been better if her journey wasn’t stopped
so abruptly. She was an inch close to reaching the pinnacle in her career.
THE END
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