9 days after he went lacking, nation singer Luke Bell was discovered lifeless in Arizona on Monday, August 29. He was 32.
The “Typically” artist, who battled bipolar dysfunction, vanished in Tucson whereas his pal and fellow musician Matt Kinman stopped to get one thing to eat, Kinman instructed Saving Nation Music. Bell’s physique was discovered close by simply over one week later.
Although an official explanation for demise has not but been revealed pending an post-mortem, the singer-songwriter’s enterprise supervisor, Brian Buchanan, stated in an announcement that Bell’s bipolar dysfunction “obtained the higher of him.”
“Luke fought this as onerous as he might, however the illness obtained the higher of him,” Buchanan instructed TMZ on Wednesday, August 31. “When he was beating the illness, he was the sweetest and most beneficiant man. He’s discovered peace now and there’s some consolation.”
Bell and Kinman, who steadily collaborated and carried out collectively, have been in Arizona “to work down right here, play some music and he simply took off,” Kinman recalled to Saving Nation Music about his pal’s disappearance. “He was behind the truck. I went in to get one thing to eat. I got here out, and he’d obtained out of the truck and left.” TMZ reported that the “Chilly Icy Mountain” singer looked for Bell for days earlier than his physique was found.
Although Bell was initially from Wyoming, he moved to Nashville to kick off his profession in nation music.
“It was a really completely different path to take; there aren’t any musicians in my household,” the “The place Ya Been?” artist instructed The Boot in 2016. “School actually wasn’t doing it for me, and I used to be on the lookout for an unbiased platform to go study, and music was that.”
Whereas his household was “skeptical” on the time, he recalled, laughing, “by the point I made my first document, everybody was actually supportive, and so they’ve helped me out quite a bit; they’re all on my staff.”
Regardless of any preliminary skepticism from his family members again house, Bell went on to make a reputation for himself as a rustic artist, touring alongside such massive names as Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr. and Dwight Yoakam.
“To be sincere, I reside within the day, and I rely smiles. That’s it,” the musician instructed The Boot on the time. “Life’s not that unhealthy. The draw back, in some methods, is I don’t have a spouse and youngsters, however on the identical time, it’s fairly splendid proper now. I simply journey round to different cities and hang around with different individuals … The aim is to have excessive hopes and low expectations and have an excellent time.”
Hold scrolling to study extra about Bell’s disappearance and demise:
