Country Singer Dies Hours After Wedding


Jake Flint.
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Nation singer Jake Flint has died simply hours after his wedding ceremony to his new spouse, Brenda Flint. He was 37 years previous.

The “What’s Your Identify?” artist, who was well-known within the Oklahoma Pink Grime subgenre of nation music, died in his sleep after he and Brenda exchanged vows on Saturday, November 26, his publicist Clif Doyal advised The Oklahoman on Monday, November 28. The singer’s explanation for demise has but to be introduced.

Brenda shared her grief through Fb on Tuesday, November 29, mourning her husband in a heartbreaking message.

“We needs to be going by wedding ceremony pictures however as an alternative I’ve to select garments to bury my husband in. Individuals aren’t meant to really feel this a lot ache,” she penned. “My coronary heart is gone and I simply actually need him to return again. I can’t take far more. I would like him right here.”

Mike Hosty, who carried out on the Flints’ wedding ceremony hours earlier than Jake’s demise, recalled the “enjoyable” occasion to The Oklahoman on Monday and shared what an “honor” it was to play on the musician’s nuptials.

“It was wet … I nonetheless have the mud in my previous van … however it was only a enjoyable wedding ceremony,” Hosty recalled. “And it’s only a tragedy what occurred.”

The one-man-band added of Jake: “He was a singer-songwriter, by and thru, and only a large persona, an enormous coronary heart, and (he’d) bend over backwards to do something for you. When any musician asks you to play at their wedding ceremony, it’s a type of most vital days … and it’s at all times an honor.”

The “Hurry Up & Wait” singer’s supervisor, Brenda Cline, additionally paid tribute to her shopper, whom she “liked very like a son.”

“With a damaged coronary heart and in deep grief I have to announce that Jake Flint has tragically handed away,” she wrote through Fb on Sunday, November 27. “We have been nearly to embark on some enterprise collectively after he and Brenda obtained married- which was yesterday. Sure-yesterday.”

The music supervisor continued: “Jake has 1,000,000 associates and I’m unsure how everybody will deal with this tragic loss. We’d like prayers- it’s all so surreal. Please please pray for his new spouse Brenda, Jake’s valuable mom, his sister and the remainder of his household and associates. That is going to be extremely tough for therefore many. We love you Jake and in our hearts ceaselessly. 💔.”

The singer-songwriter, who was performing gigs in his dwelling state weeks earlier than his passing, launched his sophomore album in 2020.

Per his official web site, Jake’s preliminary introduction to music was born out of his father’s want to share in pleasure together with his son. His dad, identified with ALS, commissioned associates to assist educate him to play guitar and instilled in him a love of music.

The “Cowtown” singer “floated by life loving, hating, gaining, shedding, experimenting, witnessing, missioning, sinning, breaking the regulation, paying the results whereas brazenly and candidly writing about all of it,” in keeping with his bio.