Cash Askew – Musician: one of the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire.
Authorities in Oakland have begun releasing the names of the victims of the warehouse fire that claimed the lives of at least 36 people on Friday night. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Bureau posted seven names on the city website Sunday night. On Tuesday, Oakland city officials identified 10 more victims.
The deceased include Cash Askew, 22; David Cline, 24; Nick Gomez-Hall, 25; Sara Hoda, 30; Travis Hough, 35; Donna Kellogg, 32; and Brandon Chase Wittenauer, 32; Em Bohlka, 33; Micah Danemayer, 28; Chelsea Dolan, 33; Alex Ghassan, 35; Michela Gregory, 20; Edmond Lapine, 34; Jennifer Morris, 21; Feral Pines, 29; Benjamin Runnels, 32; and Jennifer Kiyomi Tanouye, 31.
The name of another victim who has been identified, a 17-year-old minor, has not been officially released, the city said.
Learn more about the victims below.
http://people.com/human-interest/oakland-warehouse-fire-victims-identified/
Cash Askew
Askew was part of a Bay Area-based band called Them Are Us Too.
“Completely heartbroken to lose such an incredible soul. We love you Cash,” her record label wrote on Twitter with a black and white photo of the musician.
“Cash Askew was an absolutely loved and treasured member of the Dais Records family,” the label and band’s management team said in a press release. “We were in awe of her talent, her gentle kindness, and her creative momentum. … Her passing is an excruciating loss that we may never fully process or recover from.”
By Stephanie Petit
http://people.com/human-interest/oakland-warehouse-fire-victims-identified/
[Editor’s note: Many of those killed in the fire were musicians, including one of the bartenders Brandon Chase Wittenauer who took the job to help cover his personal expenses until his music career could take off… Others were artists and, of course, friends and supporters of the music and arts community. We send our sincerest condolences to their family and friends and know that they will be truly missed.]
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Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths…
December 2016
7: Junaid Jamshed, 52, Pakistani musician, television personality and preacher, plane crash.
5: Big Syke, 48, American rapper; Mona Maraachli, 58, Lebanese singer, heart attack; Adam Sagan, 35, American drummer (Circle II Circle, Into Eternity), lymphoma.
4: Wayne Duncan, 72, Australian musician (Daddy Cool), stroke; Julia Gomelskaya, 52, Ukrainian composer, traffic collision; Radim Hladík, 69, Czech musician (Blue Effect), pulmonary fibrosis.
3; Gigliola Frazzoni, 89, Italian opera singer; Herbert Hardesty, 91, American jazz musician.
2: Chelsea Dolan, 33, American musician and radio personality (KALX), injuries from fire: Mark Gray, 64, American country singer and songwriter (Take Me Down, The Closer You Get); Gisela May, 92, German actress and singer. Not listed: The 36 young people killed in a horrific fire at the Ghost Ship Warehouse Arts Center in Oakland, CA. See above article referencing some of those lost needlessly.
1: Elisabeth Carron, 94, American operatic soprano; Micky Fitz, 57, British punk singer (The Business), cancer.
November
30: Amar Ezzahi, 75, Algerian Chaabi singer; Kamilló Lendvay, 87, Hungarian composer and conductor; Aleksei Maslennikov, 87, Russian tenor; Ivar Thomassen, 62, Norwegian folk singer-songwriter.