Christina Victoria Grimmie March 12 1994 June 10 2016 was an American singer and YouTuber In 2009 she began posting covers of popular songs onto YouTube After releasing her debut EP Find Me 2011 her YouTube channel reached one million subscribers After she reached two million subscribers she released her debut studio album With Love 2013 She was a contestant on season six of The Voice finishing in third place Adam Levine her coach on the show announced in the finale that regardless of the results he would sign her to his label 222 Records Lil Wayne also offered to sign her to his label Young Money Entertainment She was signed with Island Records for a short time before being dropped She released her second EP Side A in 2016 That same year she took on an acting role making her only motionpicture appearance in The Matchbreaker On June 10 2016 while signing autographs following a concert performance at The Plaza Live in Orlando FL she was fatally shot by obsessed fan Kevin James Loibl who then shot himself while in a struggle with Christinas brother Marcus Side B a followup to Side A was made available on Spotify and iTunes in 2017 and in June 2017 her second and final album All Is Vanity was released posthumously In 2019 her YouTube channel reached four million subscribers although it dropped below four million in 2020 settling at 391 million as of January 2024