Parents with common sense always feel a chill run through their bodies when the doors of stardom are opened to their son or daughter. They know that it will be very difficult to get them off the yellow brick road that will lead them to fulfill their dreams, and that it is better to have them on their side, but the fear that they will become a broken toy, or something worse, will always be there, stalking. This danger is especially common in the world of music, probably more than in cinema and certainly more than in sports and other professions that make us famous worldwide. And within music, the terrain of boy-bands, Disney-type factories or K-Pop are particularly slippery. And almost always, the effects of the pressure endured without the use of reason are noticeable many years later. The shock caused by the death of Liam Payne has been similar to that experienced by that of Aaron Carter, youth pop star and brother of Nick Carter of Backstreet Boys. Her career began when she was only seven years old, and she died at the age of 34 in the bathtub of her home in California, due to drowning, after having consumed Xanax and inhaled difluorethane gas. Related News Standard No Sayuri, another Asian pop star dies at 28 years “in strange circumstances” Nacho Serrano The Japanese singer was a prominent figure in music for anime soundtracks. Between 1999 and 2002, a New York boy-band called Dream Street, which was made up of five kids from the city, was very successful. One of them, Chris Trousdale, died in June 2020 from causes that his family did not want to reveal. The Irish boy-band Boyzone, which swept the nineties, was also marked by misfortune due to the death of one of its singers, Stephen Gately, who was found dead in his home in Mallorca in 2009 at only 33 years old. In the Spanish-speaking world, one of the most famous boy bands in the world was Menudo, where Ricky Martin played. The enormous success achieved by those children marked one of them, Anthony Galindo, who committed suicide at the age of 41 in October 2020 after several attempts. His partner Ray Reyes died the following year, but from a massive heart attack. Although it was not related to fame, the death of Tom Parker, from the British boy-band The Wanted, at only 33 years old due to incurable cancer, was equally shocking. . Something similar happened with Rich Cronin, who triumphed in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s with the three-member boy-band LFO (Lyte Funky Ones), and tragically died at just 36 years old in 2010, when he suffered a stroke. related to complications derived from both leukemia and a stem cell transplant. His bandmate, Devin Lima, also died early in 2018, at age 41 from another cancer, and the following year the third member, Brian ‘Brizz’ Gillis, died at age 48 and without the cause being revealed. The Disney factory, although it does not have corpses in its backpack, has left a trail of mental problems in many of its great stars. Demi Lovato or Miley Cyrus have acknowledged having overcome certain psychological traumas due to pressure and excessive fame; It is not necessary to remember everything that happened with poor Britney Spears, and then there is the case of Lindsay Lohan, who turned her life into a spiral of excesses that luckily has not cost her her life. A world apart is that of K-Pop , where suicides are sadly the order of the day due – without a doubt – to the excessive demands and pressures of a scene determined to create ‘idols’ rather than artists. This is how Yohan, from the TST group, left at the age of 28 in June 2020; Jonghyun, lead vocalist of the South Korean group Shinee, due to carbon monoxide inhalation in December 2017 at age 27; or Haesoo, who in 2019 was found dead at the age of 29 in her home along with a note written by herself. Park Boram, also a South Korean, died at the age of 30 last April, from the same cause as Amy Winehouse: alcohol poisoning. . Another South Korean talent was Goo Ha-Ra, known as Hara, who gained popularity as a singer with the group Kara and as an actress in shows like ‘City Hunter’, and committed suicide in 2019 at just 28 years old. Choi Jin-ri, also known as Sulli, entered showbiz as a child actress at age 11, but her life took a tragic turn when she ended her music career due to threats from her fans on the Internet, which It finally led her to take her own life at the age of 25 after leaving her girl-band f(x). MORE INFORMATION “Lindsay Lohan abuses drugs, alcohol and pharmaceuticals” The singers Moonbin also committed suicide, at the age of 25 in 2023; Yohan, from the boy-band TST, in 2020 at age 28; Ahn So, in 2015 at age 21; Song Yoo-Jung, at 26 years old in 2021; or Cha In-ha, in 2019 at age 27.
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