Lauren Bennett, an alum of the girl group G.R.L. and the singer featured on LMFAO\u2019s 2011 hit \u201cParty Rock Anthem,\u201d has died, her former bandmates confirmed Monday. She was 36.<\/p>\n
In a message posted to Instagram, Bennett\u2019s former girl group, including Emmalyn Estrada, Natasha Slayton and Paula van Oppen, shared that the English singer\u2019s had passed away. They did not share a cause of death, however.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with great sadness that we share the passing of our beloved Lauren,\u201d Bennett\u2019s bandmates wrote. \u201cOur hearts are broken, and we cannot begin to express how much she meant to us. We will forever cherish the love, laughter and countless memories she gave us. Her beautiful spirit touched so many lives, and she will be deeply missed and forever loved.\u201d<\/p>\n
They added: \u201cRest peacefully, sweet Lauren. You will always be in our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n
A representative for Bennett did not immediately respond to TheWrap\u2019s request for comment. Though, USA TODAY<\/a> reported Bennett\u2019s records from the Kent and Medway Coroner noted that she died in England on May 29, a month before her 37th birthday.<\/p>\n G.R.L., which first started off as a relaunch of the Pussycat Dolls before rebranding, was best known for their breakthrough single \u201cUgly Heart\u201d and feature on Pitbull\u2019s 2011 song \u201cWild Wild Love.\u201d Bennett was also a member of another Pussycat Dolls spinoff group, called Paradiso Girls.<\/p>\n She also embarked on a solo career, releasing singles \u201cI Wish I Wish\u201d in 2011 and \u201cHurricane\u201d in 2016. Outside of her work on LMFAO\u2019s \u201cParty Rock Anthem,\u201d she notably collaborated with will.i.am on a remix of his song, \u201cI Got It from My Mama,\u201d and CeeLo Green\u2019s anthem \u201cLove Gun.\u201d<\/p>\n Her passing comes over a decade after the loss of bandmate Simone Battle, who died by suicide at the age of 25 in 2014.<\/p>\n The post Lauren Bennett, G.R.L. Alum and \u2018Party Rock Anthem\u2019 Singer, Dies at 36<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Bennett, an alum of the girl group G.R.L. and the singer featured on LMFAO\u2019s 2011 hit \u201cParty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,277674,75,277672,277500,341,277673,277671,277675],"class_list":["post-785210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-emmalyn-estrada","tag-entertainment","tag-g-r-l","tag-lauren-bennett","tag-music","tag-natasha-slayton","tag-party-rock-anthem","tag-paula-van-oppen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}