Melanie Martinez Mourns Oliver Tree, 32, After Rio Helicopter Crash Kills 6

Q: What mission united a singer, a YouTuber, and a director on the helicopter that tragically crashed over Rio?

They were reportedly together for an audiovisual production project in Rio de Janeiro. The additional reporting identifies Oliver Tree, Argentine YouTuber Gaspar Prim Díaz, and Argentine director Lucas Vignale as being linked by that project, with Gaspi and Vignale specifically in Rio for the production. Oliver Tree was in Brazil after finishing the South American leg of his world tour and was aboard the same helicopter. Public reporting so far does not give more detail about the exact nature of the production or the specific objective of the flight. But the clearest available account is that the singer, the YouTuber, and the director were united by work on an audiovisual project when the helicopter crashed.

3 articles · Updated · Rolling Stone · Jun 15

Melanie Martinez said she was "an absolute wreck" after Oliver Tree died Sunday in a midair helicopter collision in Rio de Janeiro that killed six people.
Martinez, who dated Tree from 2019 to 2020, remembered his "soft heart," contagious laugh and artistic drive, saying he inspired joy and childlike wonder.
Oliver Tree Nickell was best known for viral songs including "Life Goes On" and "Alien Boy" and had been in Rio after a Sao Paulo show on his first world tour.
Kid Cudi, T-Pain and Bebe Rexha also paid tribute, with Rexha noting they had recorded together as Tree's death halted a tour that was due to resume in Europe in July.