{"id":1709383,"date":"2022-10-24T16:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709383"},"modified":"2022-10-24T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T20:33:36","slug":"americas-got-talent-finalist-dead-at-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-got-talent-finalist-dead-at-44\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018America\u2019s Got Talent\u2019 Finalist Dead At 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericas-got-talent-finalist-dead-at-44%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709383&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d finalist Zuri Craig, who made it all the way to the final top 10 on the hit reality competition, has died at the age of 44, his family confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with profound sadness that we announce the transition of our beloved son, brother and friend, Zuri Craig,\u201d the Craig family shared in a statement posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CkDzsAXLhQi\/\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/zuri-craig-americas-got-talent-finalist-tyler-perry-collaborator-dead-44\/\">People magazine<\/a>\u00a0reported on Sunday. The family shared that the singer died on Friday. No cause of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/another-artist-collapses-on-stage-and-dies\">death<\/a> has yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank you in advance for your prayers,\u201d the statement added. Please honor our privacy during this unimaginable time of mourning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The caption next to the post read, \u201cPlease keep our family and friends in your prayers. More info forthcoming\u2026[RIPZuriCraig].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Craig shined on season 10 of America\u2019s Got Talent in 2015 as part of the CraigLewis Band with his singing partner, Jeffrey Lewis, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/24\/americas-got-talent-finalist-zuri-craig-dead-at-44\/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=NYPTwitter\">New York Post<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>The band and Craig ended up coming in fifth place in the competition, after doing their cover versions of hits by legends like James Brown and Mary J. Blige. The songs the duo sang were Brown\u2019s \u201cThis is a Man\u2019s World\u201d and Blige\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Goin\u2019 Down,\u201d People magazine noted.<\/p>\n<p>Craig also previously collaborated with actor Tyler Perry on several of his movies, such as \u201cMadea\u2019s Big Happy Family\u201d and \u201cA Madea Christmas,\u201d the Post noted.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the singer shared tributes to him on social media.<\/p>\n<p>One wrote, \u201cMy condolences to his family and friends and Tyler Perry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeepest condolences and Prayers To Family and Friends R.I.P. Zuri,\u201d another fan shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWords cannot say enough,\u201d one person explained. \u201cOur condolences to the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another shared, \u201cCondolences to the family and loved ones of thee amazing talented musical brother Zuri.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February, another talent on the hit reality competition, contestant Jane Marczewski, known as \u201cNightbirde\u201d on the hit show, passed away at the age of 31 \u2014 several years after being diagnosed with cancer, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/americas-got-talent-contestant-jane-marczewski-dead-at-31\">The Daily Wire<\/a> previously reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/americas-got-talent-performer-accidently-hits-chase-stephens\">\u2018America\u2019s Got Talent\u2019 Performer Accidently Hits Partner With Flaming Arrow On Live\u00a0TV<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d finalist Zuri Craig, who made it all the way to the final top 10 on the hit reality competition, has died at the age of 44, his family confirmed. \u201cIt is with profound sadness that we announce the transition of our beloved son, brother and friend, Zuri Craig,\u201d the Craig family shared &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1709386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}