Known for his playback videos on the hits of the early 2010s, Keenan Cahill died on Thursday, December 29. Suffering from a genetic disease, the young man died two weeks after undergoing open-heart surgery.
He was undoubtedly the ancestor of TikTok playbacks. Keenan Cahill died at the age of 27 in a Chicago hospital, two weeks after undergoing open-heart surgery, US media report. The young man suffered from a genetic disease called Maroteaux-Lamy, which caused his dwarfism and deafness.
In the early 2010s, Keenan Cahill was a young teenager of fifteen, who posted himself on YouTube singing in playback on the titles of the moment. It is thanks to a video in which he resumed “Teenage Dream» of Katy Perry, that the young boy had seduced the web.
The former youtubeur placed under respiratory assistance
Several stars had then jostled to make videos with the teenager, including Justin Bieber, Jennifer Aniston, or rapper 50 Cent.
“I started recording videos because I liked singing and acting at the same time. For my 13th birthday, I received a computer with an integrated webcam. And I wanted to have fun, so I started to sing in front of my computer, then to lip-sync,” he confided in an interview.
On December 15, Keenan Cahill underwent valve surgery, after which he was placed on life support. The former social media star did not survive the surgery, and breathed her last a few days after Christmas.