Christina Grimmie’s legacy still shines bright, even 10 years after her tragic passing. The singer from South Jersey has left a worldwide legacy of music, kindness, and charity.
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My daughter Christina was a phenomenal young child.
My wife always said she was singing before she was talking.
We wound up buying her a $200 keyboard that she just took off with.
She was a pioneer of YouTube, getting well-known, world-renowned from her bedroom.
Christina was very intentional about how she treated people and the kindness that she showed everyone she met.
I think she would be grateful to see what we're doing in her name now, even a decade later.
June 10, 2016, everything changed.
Christina had gotten invited to be part of a tour.
A shooter had waited in line, shot Christina.
The tragedy that came into our lives, it's unspeakable. It's beyond devastation.
We don't want Christina to be remembered just for the tragedy.
Let's do something that honors her, like a memorial, a foundation, something in her name.
We started Christina Grimmie Foundation, and we raise money for families who experience gun violence and lose a loved one.
And we've given away almost $600,000.
So it's very therapeutic for my son and I.
Our tagline is building a legacy of hope and inspiration.
June 5, we're going to have a three-day weekend Grimmie Fest for her fans and friends of our family to come.
Saturday night is the Benefit concert, and then Sunday is the trip to the Ocean City Boardwalk.
The sun coming up on the ocean, as vast as it is, it just makes me feel close to God.
And I know my girls are with them.
There's places in the South Jersey area, in Marlton, and restaurants have pictures of Christina up.
And ultimately, Christina's resting place is in South Jersey.
It's such a blessing to us to know that it's cared for, it's looked after.
Her music is still being listened to on Spotify, 400,000, like, still listened to monthly.
And all the families that we've helped, this is 10 years that her legacy lives on.
