People<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cDespite lifesaving efforts, the patient was pronounced deceased at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to records from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, Piane\u2019s death has been ruled an accident. The circumstances surrounding the tragic accident are still under police investigation.<\/p>\n
The production company behind RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race, World of Wonder, paid tribute to Paine in a heartfelt statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are devastated to learn of the passing of Lucian Piane,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n
\u201cLucian left behind a legacy of truly beautiful music. May his struggles never dim the memories of a sweet man, a dear friend, and a master musician. Rest in peace, Lucian.\u201d<\/p>\n
Piane\u2019s career spanned TV, film, theatre and digital media where he found his biggest success as composer, songwriter and music producer.<\/p>\n
He was a major creative force behind the sound of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race from season one through to season eight, where he was a composer, producer and frequent on-air guest judge and mentor.<\/p>\n
Piane collaborated with the show\u2019s host and drag icon, RuPaul, on a number of the series\u2019 biggest hits as a co writer and producer of Cover Girl, Sissy That Walk, Jealous of My Boogie, Peanut Butter, Geronimo, Freaky Money, The Beginning, Born Naked, Champion, Sexy Drag Queen, I Bring the Beat, Let the Music Play, Feel Like Dancin and Main Event.<\/p>\n
He achieved career success away from RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race, with the composer receiving an RIAA Platinum Album Award for his production and music assistance on Hairspray: The Soundtrack to the Motion Picture.<\/p>\n
Piane was also recognised with a Grammy nomination and reached internet fame for his satirical techno mixes he shared under the name RevoLucian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American reality TV star and music producer Lucian Piane has died at age 46 after being hit by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,2331,134],"class_list":["post-927249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-culture","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}