Diplo, Logan Paul, the late singer’s parents and more remember Tree’s legacy at Santa Cruz memorial<\/p>\n
\n\tOliver Tree<\/a> was remembered by friends and family Saturday at a \u201cCelebration of Life\u201d in the late singer\u2019s native Santa Cruz, California<\/p>\n \n\tThe public memorial, held six weeks after Tree died in a helicopter crash<\/a> in Rio de Janeiro, featured guests like Diplo, Logan Paul, Aaron Mercury, Ethan Klein, and Tree\u2019s own parents, who addressed the crowd.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI think Oliver would say trust yourself, get off the couch, produce art, and it\u2019s really important to get in there and get your hands dirty,\u201d Tree\u2019s parents said. \u201cHe was a doer. It was like, \u2018Get off the couch and do that.\u2019 That was his message.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOliver Tree never dies, jokes aside guys, Oliver was everyone\u2019s best friend. He was an adventurer with an incomparable zest for life and the ultimate ability to make anyone feel seen and heard,\u201d Logan Paul said during the Celebration of Life.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOliver is a generational artist whose legacy and music will last forever, and he\u2019d be proud of all of us for keeping our heads up high by celebrating the impact of his time here on Earth, because at the end of the day, life goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAll proceeds from the Celebration of Life benefitted Dr. Oliver Tree\u2019s Extremely Epic Art Grant for Baby Geniuses<\/a>, a recently launched foundation<\/a> by Tree\u2019s estate that, as per the late singer\u2019s wishes, will provide grants to young artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diplo, Logan Paul, the late singer’s parents and more remember Tree’s legacy at Santa Cruz memorial Oliver Tree…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69,240418],"class_list":["post-545208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oliver-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}