A former American Idol contestant, C.J. Harris died yesterday at 31 years old from an apparent heart attack.
TMZ reported that they were told by a family member that Harris suffered an apparent heart attack in Jasper, Alabama.
Harris, whose full name is Curtis Harris, was taken to the Walker Baptist Medical Center by ambulance after a medical emergency.
A spokesperson for the Walker County Coroner’s Office confirmed that Harris died at the hospital, but no further details were released.
In 2014, Harris finished in the top six on American Idol after first auditioning in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and then in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Harris was active on social media and one of his final posts on Instagram, shared in December, was a video of himself playing a cover of a song by The Fray titled, “How to Save a Life.”
Harris hadn’t been as active on Twitter recently but shared a picture of himself, apparently taken Christmas Eve, in the early morning yesterday.
— C.J.Harris (@CJHarrisMusic) January 15, 2023
On Friday, Harris shared another picture in a tweet of himself with a guitar and said that it was from the Frog Festival 2022.
Frog festival 2022 pic.twitter.com/Bs1g0Usv1n
— C.J.Harris (@CJHarrisMusic) January 13, 2023
Prior to that, he hadn’t tweeted since September of 2022 when he shared a flyer announcing that he was set to play at the Frog Festival in October of last year.
Come hangout with the Band and I October 7th in fayette Alabama. My band starts playing 730pm. pic.twitter.com/SNOtxxC9ER
— C.J.Harris (@CJHarrisMusic) September 22, 2022
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