Oklahoma country artist dies just hours after wedding: ‘It’s all so surreal’

An Oklahoma country music artist died just hours after getting married, in accordance with his supervisor.

Jake Flint, a singer-songwriter lively in Oklahoma’s Red Dirt country scene, handed unexpectedly over the weekend, she stated. He was 37 years previous.

“With a broken heart and in deep grief I must announce that Jake Flint has tragically passed away,” wrote Brenda Cline, Flint’s supervisor, in a press release posted Monday to Facebook. “I’ve tried several times today to make a post, but you can’t comment on what you can’t process.”

Cline says Flint was “the funniest, most hilarious, hardest working, dedicated artist” she had ever labored with, and that she beloved him “like a son.”

Cline went on to say that Flint acquired married on Saturday, just hours earlier than his loss of life.

Flint’s new bride, Brenda Flint, merely posted a message studying, “I don’t understand,” together with a video that appeared to be taken during their Saturday wedding.

“We should be going through wedding photos but instead I have to pick out clothes to bury my husband in,” she wrote in a later post on Tuesday. “People aren’t meant to feel this much pain.”

Cline requested followers to hope for Flint’s new bride, in addition to his household and mates.

“Jake has a million friends and I’m not sure how everyone will cope with this tragic loss. We need prayers — it’s all so surreal,” Cline wrote.

Neither Cline nor Brenda Flint had elaborated on Flint’s reason for loss of life on their social media accounts as of Tuesday, KTLA sister station KFOR reviews.

Flint, who lived in Mounds, Oklahoma, stated he discovered to play music after his father was recognized with Lou Gehrig’s Disease and was not capable of play with him, in accordance with his website. Flint’s father requested a few his mates to show Jake to play guitar and take him to regional bluegrass festivals.

Flint’s first studio album was launched in 2020. He was scheduled to carry out reveals in Oklahoma and Arkansas within the coming months, in accordance with his official web site.