Teen Was Singing Solo When He Collapsed, Died at Naperville Choir Event, Family Says

"They told us that while he was doing his solo, he just passed out," said his mother Karolin Moshi. "He collapsed"

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Seventeen-year-old Daniel Moshi was doing the thing he loved most when he unexpectedly died onstage during a tragic incident at a suburban choir event, his family said.

"They told us that while he was doing his solo, he just passed out," said his mother Karolin Moshi. "He collapsed and we don't know anything else."

Moshi, of Franklin Park, was a senior at Leyden High School in District 212. He had plans to attend college next year and dreamed of ending up on Broadway someday.

A photo of Daniel Moshi singing at an unrelated event Karolin Moshi said she had dropped her son off at school Friday, knowing he would be heading to the show choir event that evening. At the time, she said everything seemed normal.

"Actually, I stopped by Starbucks right over here, where he grabbed his macchiato drink and his sandwich. I dropped him off. And he was waiting for his teacher to come, you know, come up and pick him up with his other students that were attending this choir show," she said.

‘Unbelievable Surge': Chicago-Area Doctors Report Rise in RSV, Respiratory Cases in Kids "He texted me, 'Mom, I'm here' at around five o'clock approximately," she said. "I texted him, 'I said everything good?' I have his text. He said, 'Yep, all good mom.'"

Less than two hours later, the family quickly learned everything was not "all good."

"I got the call from his teacher, musical teacher. And she said there's an incident," his father Loden Moshi told NBC Chicago. "That he was singing his solo rehearsal and he collapsed. And now they've given him CPR and taken him to one hospital."

Moshi was performing at the All State Honors Show Choir for the Illinois American Choral Directors Association Friday at Naperville North High School when he became unconscious.

Naperville fire officials confirmed they responded to the high school around 6:18 p.m. for an "unconscious" 17-year-old boy. When fire officials arrived, bystanders were performing CPR on the teen, who was taken to Edwards Medical Center, where he died.

"IL-ACDA is saddened by the loss of this beautiful person who loved to sing," President of IL-ACDA Laura Coster wrote on Facebook following the tragic incident. "Our condolences to his family, the students, the directors, and to... students in the Leyden district."

The DuPage County coroner's office said it was investigating the death, but a cause of death has not been released.

"We came home Saturday morning, I received a call from the DuPage coroner's office and she said, 'Miss Moshi, I'm reaching out to you to let you know that there was nothing wrong with your son. His organs were all healthy, his heart - absolutely nothing wrong with him,'" Karolin Moshi said.

Leyden High School said it is grieving the loss of one of its own and offered support for students struggling with the news.

"This loss impacts our entire Leyden community," a spokesperson for the school told NBC Chicago in a statement Monday. "Our students and staff are grieving and our focus is on their well being. We encourage anyone who is struggling to reach out to a trusted adult and our Student Services department is available to provide support. We are also asking everyone to look after each other during this difficult time."

Moshi's family, who wore blue during their interview with NBC Chicago because it was his favorite color, said they are leaning into their faith to cope with the loss of their son and the lack of answers surrounding his death.

"It's hard. It's not easy," Karolin Moshi said. "You can see my eyes. I've been crying. I can't sleep. I haven't slept since Friday. But it's... I don't know how to explain it... we believe what we believe in. The Lord is keeping us going. It's not easy. We were supposed to buy him a car. We're actually doing his funeral. It's not easy. It's not easy for any parent to go through this because we still don't have answers."

"He was amazing," his younger sister Danya Moshi said. "And I feel like people should know that more...If people have siblings, you need to have fun with them. Because if one of them goes away, you feel alone."

For perspective here is a wikipedia list of performers who died during a performance. The list probably includes only well known performers and wouldn't likely include teens that are part of a choir. I don't now whether the teens death was covid related or vaccine related or unrelated, just that people of all ages sometimes die unexpectedly.

List of entertainers who died during a performance

Excerpted from above list.

2016:

3 April: Indonesian dangdut singer Irma Bule died during a performance in Karawang, West Java after she was bitten by a king cobra she brought on stage as a prop. She continued singing for 45 minutes after being bitten before she collapsed and died.[57]
24 April: Papa Wemba died during a performance around 9:00 pm in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
15 May: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Principal Bass Emeritus Jane Little collapsed and died on stage during the last 30 seconds of the orchestra's final encore of "There's No Business Like Show Business", from the musical Annie Get Your Gun by Irving Berlin. Little was 87 years old and had been a member of the orchestra for 71 years.[58]
21 May: Former Megadeth drummer Nick Menza collapsed and died of heart failure during a performance with his band OHM at The Baked Potato in Los Angeles.
10 June: Christina Grimmie was fatally shot while signing autographs following a concert performance at The Plaza Live in Orlando, Florida.[59]
15 June: Milorad Mandić suddenly died of a heart attack onstage during a matinee performance of Peter Pan. 8 October: Taiwanese singer Kuo Chin-fa collapsed on stage during a performance in Kaohsiung. He was then declared dead in a hospital of cardiorespiratory failure.
23 November: Italian guitarist and electronic music producer Alberto Bertapelle, better known by his stage name Brainbug, died of heart attack during performance in Tavagnacco of Udine, Italy.

2017:

3 January: Nepali actor Bishnu Bhakta Phuyal died while acting on stage. He fainted during a performance at the theater in Kathmandu.[60]
18 March: Original Boston drummer Sib Hashian died after collapsing during a performance on the Legends of Rock cruise.[61]
1 May: Guitarist and jam band performer Colonel Bruce Hampton collapsed and died of a heart attack during a jam at an all-star concert held in honor of his 70th birthday at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.[62] Hampton collapsed in the middle of a performance of "Turn On Your Love Light", while guitarist Brandon Niederauer took a solo, an action that the other musicians on stage first assumed was humorous act of homage by the quirky, older musician to the younger guitarist before they realized Hampton was not moving.[63] Before his death, Hampton had often joked to friends and journalists that he would prefer to die onstage if given the choice.[63]
19 July: French barefoot singer Barbara Weldens collapsed while performing in a church in Gourdon, France, apparently from electrocution from a faulty cable on the floor.[64]
17 September: Laudir de Oliveira, Brazilian percussionist and former member of the band Chicago, died of a heart attack during a performance in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[65]

2018:

28 January: Veteran Ottan Thullal artist Kalamandalam Geethanandan collapsed on stage and died during a performance.
6 February: Kathakali dancer Madavoor Vasudevan Nair slumped on stage and died during a performance.[66]
22 December: Three out of four members of Indonesian band Seventeen died when a tsunami caused by the eruption of Anak Krakatau crashed into their concert site at a beach in Tanjung Lesung, Banten. Also killed were band manager Oki Wijaya and Dylan Sahara, the wife of the band's lone survivor Riefian "Ifan" Fajarsyah.

2019:

11 March: Argentine singer Sergio Denis suffered a 3-meter (10-foot) fall from the stage in the middle of a song during a show in San Miguel de Tucumán. Unconscious and with a broken shoulder, he was transported to the hospital in which he was induced in a coma. He died without having woken up on 15 May 2020, a year and two months after his fall.[67]
11 April: Comedian Ian Cognito died of a heart attack during a show in Bicester. He is reported to have "sat on a chair and laid back for five minutes," with audience members initially believing it to be part of his routine until the event's compère called an ambulance.[68]
11 May: Luchador Silver King was wrestling a match in Camden Town, London, England against Juventud Guerrera when he suffered a heart attack.[69]
2 September: Joana Sainz García, Spanish singer and dancer of Super Hollywood Orchestra, died in Las Berlanas, Spain when a pyrotechnic was shot in the wrong direction during the on-stage explosion.[70]
27 November: Godfrey Gao, Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor, died of cardiac arrest while filming Chase Me.
31 December: Juliano Cezar, Brazilian sertanejo singer, died of a heart attack during a concert in Uniflor, Paraná.[71]

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