Singer-songwriter Oliver Tree has reportedly died. He was 32.
Two helicopters crashed into one another in southwest Rio de Janeiro on the morning of Sunday, June 14, according to a same-day report from CNN Brazil. According to the outlet, Tree was one of six fatalities from the reported crash.
Further details about the reported collision have not been revealed. Us Weekly has reached out to a representative for Tree for comment.
Tree, known for songs “Life Goes On” and “Miss You” and amassing more than 2 million social media followers, recently traveled to Brazil for his world tour. He recently performed in São Paulo on June 6 and was set to play in Lisbon, Portugal, on July 13.
Hours before the fatal crash, Tree offered a glimpse of his Brazilian experience via social media.
“Gringo’s 24 hours in Brazil,” the musician wrote in Spanish via Instagram on Saturday, June 14, alongside footage of himself playing soccer, getting a haircut and cooking meat.
Tree’s social media followers have since offered their condolences in the comments section.
“Alien Boy gone back to his home planet 💔🙏🏼,” influencer Robbie Tripp commented on Sunday, while Jared Rolfe added, “Forever will be missed 💙.”
Tree rose to fame in 2016 with the release of his single, “When I’m Down.”
“As an artist, there’s not a lot of new things you can do. Every chord progression has been played [as have] every single lyric [and] rhyming pattern,” Tree said on a December 2023 episode of the “Happy Endings” podcast of his musical career. “It’s, like, there’s only so much that can be done. So for me, the excitement happens in fusion and taking things that don’t fit with another thing.”
He continued at the time, “I’m all about juxtaposition, so you merge things that really shouldn’t go together and find creative ways to blend them.”
As Tree’s popularity grew, he became more selective about scheduling gigs.
“I told the agents this year, I’m like, ‘Yo, this is the new number. If it’s not this number, don’t even bring it.’ I take it as disrespect, and so, I have my standards,” he stated. “This summer I only played five shows, but those shows were, like, double what I got paid last year. … I’s a lot less work for me, I get to do a lot less traveling and I can go and spend, you know, three weeks traveling across Europe just for fun. As I do those moves, I’m getting smarter about it.”
In addition to his one-of-a-kind music, Tree was known for rocking a signature bowl cut and mullet.
“[The mullet] is a 360 party all the time,” he said on the podcast episode in 2023. “I want to do the bowl cut again, but then cut the top part out.”
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