Christina Grimmie has won her first-ever Teen Choice Award at the 2016 awards show on July 31, and it was definitely an emotional moment. The late singer won the coveted surfboard beating out four other stars. See which award she was honored with.
Christina Grimmie, 22, won the award for Choice Web Star: Music Honor at the TCA’s held at The Forum in Inglewood, CA. This marks the late singer’s first-ever TCA award, and we’re sure her fans are beaming with excitement over her win. She beat out huge digital star’s like Chloe X Halle, MattyBRaps, Cimorelli and Johnny Orlando.
The singer, who rose to fame as a contestant on season six of The Voice and came in third place while part of Adam Levine‘s, 37, team, was shot and killed at a meet and greet for one of her concerts June 10, 2016. An autopsy report was completed, concluding her cause of death was due to “gunshot wounds” to her head and chest. She also made close friendships with stars like Selena Gomez, 24.
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Christina’s memory and incredible talent continues to live on through moments like this, but her fans have more reason to celebrate her beautiful life. In an announced on Twitter, her camp revealed that they will be releasing a four-part mini-series of music videos for the Side A EP titled, “The Ballad of Jessica Blue”. The story from the series “follows Jessica Blue through the songs, ‘Snow White’, ‘Anybody’s You’, ‘Deception’, and ‘Without Him’ on her journey to find her voice and her path in life only to find they are one in the same.” Their statement is below:
The videos are set to be released through the singer’s YouTube Channel and her Facebook page. Billboard will also be exclusively premiering the videos. The dates for the release begin August 11 and continue on August 18, August 25 and September 1.
We’re so happy Christina won this amazing award and we can’t wait to see the never-before-seen videos too! The singer’s friends and family are in our thoughts.
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