[Brightcove "3989667909001"] It should have been the greatest time of their lives. Last April, the all-girl band G.R.L. was just gaining buzz, heating up the charts with "Ugly Heart" and singing the chorus to Pitbull's popular radio jam, "Wild Wild Love." The five singers were huge in Australia and performed on the Today Show and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. And then, the unthinkable happened. Group member Simone Battle, 25, who had risen to fame as a finalist on the 2011 U.S. version of X-Factor, unexpectedly took her own life on Sept. 5, 2014. "It all just came to a stop," says member Paula Van Oppen,...
- 1/15/2015
- by Gillian Telling, @gilliantelling
- PEOPLE.com
[Brightcove "3989667909001"] It should have been the greatest time of their lives. Last April, the all-girl band G.R.L. was just gaining buzz, heating up the charts with "Ugly Heart" and singing the chorus to Pitbull's popular radio jam, "Wild Wild Love." The five singers were huge in Australia and performed on the Today Show and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. And then, the unthinkable happened. Group member Simone Battle, 25, who had risen to fame as a finalist on the 2011 U.S. version of X-Factor, unexpectedly took her own life on Sept. 5, 2014. "It all just came to a stop," says member Paula Van Oppen,...
- 1/15/2015
- by Gillian Telling, @gilliantelling
- PEOPLE.com
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