{"id":852629,"date":"2026-09-18T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852629\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T23:20:09","slug":"duncan-sheik-singer-songwriter-who-found-success-on-pop-charts-and-broadway-dies-at-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852629\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan Sheik, singer-songwriter who found success on pop charts and Broadway, dies at 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3BYCMRBSQNDIDFYEYRQYUX5ZN4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who rose to fame for his hit 1996 single \u201cBarely Breathing,\u201d then went on to compose the Tony Award-winning musical \u201cSpring Awakening,\u201d died Thursday. He was 56.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ASQWZW5B2JBWLPHOJK66WVEULU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cThe world has a lost a singular talent, and deeply influential voice in music and theater,\u201d his family said in a statement on Sheik\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ddbq0xIxObY\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ddbq0xIxObY\/\">official Instagram account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who rose to fame for his hit 1996 single \u201cBarely Breathing,\u201d then went on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-852629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}