{"id":360754,"date":"2026-06-14T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360754\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:09:08","slug":"oliver-tree-musician-and-santa-cruz-native-dies-in-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360754\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Tree, musician and Santa Cruz native, dies in helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oliver Tree, a genre-defying singer-songwriter and Santa Cruz, Calif., native, was one of six people killed when two helicopters collided Sunday morning in Brazil, according to the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brazil-rio-helicopter-collision-dc3e059c8dcc4fbd84f714dd3c5ab2c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Tree, a quirky artist known for his highly theatrical music videos and crisp bowl cut, had been traveling through South America as a part of his world tour. <\/p>\n<p>Tree\u2019s hit song \u201cLife Goes On\u201d and collaboration \u201cMiss You\u201d with German DJ Robin Schulz earned him international recognition and climbed onto the Billboard Hot 100. He was 32.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe Oliver is gone,\u201d Schulz posted on <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/robin__schulz\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cYou were such a lovely soul and a one of a kind character. Working with you on \u2018Miss You\u2019 was an honor. My deepest condolences to his family, friends and everyone who loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnbrasil.com.br\/nacional\/sudeste\/rj\/cantor-oliver-tree-e-um-dos-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN Brazil reported Argentinian YouTuber Gaspar Prim<\/a>, also known as <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gaspipd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gaspi<\/a>, was among those killed in the crash. <\/p>\n<p>The mid-air collision occurred in Rio de Janeiro, with one of the helicopters landing in the parking lot of a car dealership, the AP reports. Local authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the crash. <\/p>\n<p>Tree had performed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 4. <\/p>\n<p>From July to October, he had shows scheduled throughout Europe, Australia and China. But, in one of his <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OliverTreemusic\/videos\/1023423373671810\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last social media posts<\/a>, he made a point to spotlight an upcoming show on Aug. 9 in his hometown at the Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuy tickets rn,\u201d he said, \u201cor u might miss ur chance to see me perform live bruh!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Tree, a genre-defying singer-songwriter and Santa Cruz, Calif., native, was one of six people killed when two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19294,6915,6908,146774,7,9,8,3813,8077,591,52544,21720,146773,146772,1860,10390,13795,41740],"class_list":["post-360754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-argentina","tag-australia","tag-brazil","tag-buenos-aires","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cause","tag-europe","tag-helicopter-crash","tag-miss","tag-musician","tag-oliver-tree","tag-santa-cruz-native","tag-show","tag-song","tag-tree","tag-world-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}