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Quindon Tarver, best known for singing in Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 Romeo + Juliet and Seasons 2 and 7 of American Idol is dead at age 38 after a car accident in Texas.
The singer’s uncle, Willie Tarver, confirmed news of his death to The Daily Beast saying he was in an accident on a Texas highway last Thursday. He had an accident all we know is he had a wreck, crashed into a wall somewhere on George Bush [Turnpike], he told the outlet. That’s all the information I have.
Quindon Tarver, Child Singer Who Appeared in Baz Luhrmann s Romeo + Juliet, Killed at Age 38
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 In a 2017 interview with the ABC, Tarver said his career stalled after he spoke out about being sexually abused as a child in the music industry. I was hurting. I had been molested, I had been raped, I had lost my career, which is what I had dreamed of doing all my life, he told the outlet.  After coming home to Texas, Tarver said he struggled with drugs, alcohol and suicidal thoughts. he spoke of his suicidal thoughts in what was to be his final Instagram post, uploaded just days before his death last week. When I think of being at my lowest point in life & suicide was my only way out in 2012. After the attempted try that landed me on life support for 17 hours on a breathing machine. it was NOBODY BUT GOD that put breath back in my body, he wrote in the March 26 post, accompanying a short video of him singing: